{"id":34338,"date":"2012-10-22T10:35:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T14:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=34338"},"modified":"2013-03-14T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:05:44","slug":"instaflaneur-on-and-off-the-grid-in-toronto-torontohenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/10\/22\/instaflaneur-on-and-off-the-grid-in-toronto-torontohenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Instaflaneur: on and off the grid in Toronto + Torontohenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mc2jv92Deb1r2gi9to1_500.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/07\/feature-flaneur-6002.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Toronto street grid lines up perfectly with either the setting or rising sun four time a year. Perfect alignment happens again this Thursday, but already cloud-free sunsets are quite brilliant, with a golden bowling ball at the end of our west-heading avenues, like Wellesley at Yonge here, snapped last Wednesday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/living\/article\/1272809--off-and-on-the-grid-in-toronto-micallef\">I wrote about our grid, and our streets that break out of it (and more details on Torontohenge) in my Toronto Star column on Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto street grid lines up perfectly with either the setting or rising sun four time a year. Perfect alignment happens again this Thursday, but already cloud-free sunsets are quite brilliant, with a golden bowling ball at the end of our west-heading avenues, like Wellesley at Yonge here, snapped last Wednesday. I wrote about our<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/10\/22\/instaflaneur-on-and-off-the-grid-in-toronto-torontohenge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Instaflaneur: on and off the grid in Toronto + Torontohenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[19,341],"class_list":["post-34338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-streetscape","category-walking","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-star"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Instaflaneur: on and off the grid in Toronto + Torontohenge - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/10\/22\/instaflaneur-on-and-off-the-grid-in-toronto-torontohenge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Instaflaneur: on and off the grid in Toronto + Torontohenge - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Toronto street grid lines up perfectly with either the setting or rising sun four time a year. 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