{"id":2193,"date":"2009-03-08T15:21:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T19:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/03\/08\/exploring-under-montreal\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:03:06","slug":"exploring-under-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/03\/08\/exploring-under-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Under Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.undermontreal.com\/spacing\/pieix_waterfall_500px.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello Spacing Readers, I&#8217;m Andrew, an underground explorer\/photographer here in Montreal. I recently launched a site called (what else?)  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undermontreal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Under Montreal<\/a>, essentially to try and better document the types of places that I&#8217;ve been visiting over the past few years. After <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/author\/alanah\/\">Alanah<\/a> came across a few of my posts, she invited me to post the odd thing here.<\/p>\n<p>Just a bit about myself: I&#8217;m originally from Toronto and first moved to Montreal about two and a half years ago. Since then I&#8217;ve been trying to get a better understanding of the entire island in terms of how it&#8217;s evolved and how it functions today. I&#8217;ve found that one of the best ways to do that has been to head underground and to get my hands dirty with the guts of the city and the surrounding areas. I know it sounds a little strange, but it works well for me.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of what I&#8217;ve learned has been gained indirectly. When searching out these spaces, I tend to pick up a fair amount of knowledge along the way whether I intend to or not. Similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=2373543731\" target=\"_blank\">psychogeography crowd<\/a>, I end up in areas of Montreal that I might never have visited otherwise, let alone given any thought to begin with. The more I learn about the underground, the more I learn about everything else above it both in terms of the past and the present. I suppose I even learn a bit about myself along the way as well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also as much fun as it is rewarding, but while I&#8217;m not a big fan of disclaimers, please don&#8217;t take my posts as an invitation to try this stuff yourself. There is an element of risk involved, both in the physical and legal sense and the last thing I&#8217;d want to see is anyone injure themselves or get in trouble as a result of things shown here. Put another way: do as I say, not as I do.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, I hope you enjoy my posts and look forward to receiving your feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Spacing Readers, I&#8217;m Andrew, an underground explorer\/photographer here in Montreal. I recently launched a site called (what else?) Under Montreal, essentially to try and better document the types of places that I&#8217;ve been visiting over the past few years. 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