{"id":134,"date":"2005-08-19T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=134"},"modified":"2005-08-19T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T17:15:47","slug":"we-heart-dufferin-grove-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/08\/19\/we-heart-dufferin-grove-park\/","title":{"rendered":"We Heart Dufferin Grove Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eye.net\/eye\/issue\/issue_08.18.05\/city\/photos\/dufferingrove.JPG\" alt=\"i love dirt\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Spacing<\/em> editor Dale Duncan, <a href=\"http:\/\/eye.net\/eye\/issue\/issue_08.18.05\/city\/dufferingrove.html\"><strong>writes in Eye this week<\/strong><\/a>: &#8220;From the bus stop outside Dufferin Mall, Dufferin Grove seems like many of the other 1,460 parks in the city of Toronto. But the 5.75-hectare park, which runs along Dufferin Street&#8230;is not your ordinary park. The Zamboni garage also functions as a kitchen. Park staff bake cookies in the rink house. Neighbours gather for healthy $6 dinners every Friday night. You can make pizza in the outdoor ovens, start a garden, and buy organic food.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing editor Dale Duncan, writes in Eye this week: &#8220;From the bus stop outside Dufferin Mall, Dufferin Grove seems like many of the other 1,460 parks in the city of Toronto. But the 5.75-hectare park, which runs along Dufferin Street&#8230;is not your ordinary park. The Zamboni garage also functions as a kitchen. 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