{"id":1560,"date":"2007-02-25T04:07:49","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T08:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2007-02-25T04:11:15","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T08:11:15","slug":"mars-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/25\/mars-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/redthin.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/redpod.jpg\" \/>Anybody out and about on one of Toronto&#8217;s east-west streets today between approximately 4-6pm surely noticed that the sunset is perfectly aligned with those streets right now. It makes it impossible to see west as there are few buildings for the sun to hide behind, but it makes for a strange and beautiful end-of-the-world fireball effect. At King and Spadina the sun was reflecting off the giant building-sized iPod ad, turning everything in the vicinity red. These pictures probably don&#8217;t do the weird atmosphere justice, but everything &#8212; my hands, the asphalt, the cars, the Budget rental building, chunks of snow, even <em>my<\/em> iPod &#8212; were all unnaturally red. Even the air, it seemed. Just like those sci-fi movies set on Mars that use lights that give everything a red tinge. I wasn&#8217;t even paying particular attention to my surroundings at the moment &#8212; suddenly the world was just red.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/redfat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody out and about on one of Toronto&#8217;s east-west streets today between approximately 4-6pm surely noticed that the sunset is perfectly aligned with those streets right now. 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