{"id":1008,"date":"2006-07-21T00:03:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T04:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:49:06","slug":"philadelphias-autobiographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/07\/21\/philadelphias-autobiographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s Autobiographies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/72\/190068702_89b48a1b2c_o.jpg\" \/>With Art Attack! just a couple of days away, here&#8217;s another example (albeit a top-down one) of the reclamation of spaces typically reserved for commercial advertising.  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