{"id":3883,"date":"2008-12-15T15:54:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T20:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/12\/15\/lake-ontario-and-the-signs-that-regulate-our-relationship-with-it\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:51:59","slug":"lake-ontario-and-the-signs-that-regulate-our-relationship-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/12\/15\/lake-ontario-and-the-signs-that-regulate-our-relationship-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Ontario and the signs that regulate our relationship with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3276\/3111517774_49ddcf7e62.jpg?v=0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Sunday walk along a choppy Lake Ontario to deserted <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=2019\">HtO Park<\/a> yesterday presented little distraction from reading the many signs in the Harbourfront area. There are lots &#8212; the waterfront could be called the Sign District (special signs to designate it could be made up). No skateboarding, no rollerblading, no various and sundry activities. Toronto&#8217;s officiousness is so infectious that one visitor augmented the above sign, driving home the point a little more. Perhaps it metaphorically represents the so-called separation Torontonians have with Lake Ontario.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3260\/3110685493_864d3ee978.jpg?v=0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over at the new and nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/GTA\/Fixer\/article\/488776\">Spadina Wave<\/a>, it takes longer to read the instructions on how to use the wave than to cross the wave itself. It&#8217;s true that I did not feel in danger anytime during my walk, and I always knew what to do and where my place was. Bureacratic prose and phrasing bounced through my head for the rest of the day, like how a catchy tune might stay with you for a while. Municipal Code #608 is a Toronto indie rock song waiting to be written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sunday walk along a choppy Lake Ontario to deserted HtO Park yesterday presented little distraction from reading the many signs in the Harbourfront area. There are lots &#8212; the waterfront could be called the Sign District (special signs to designate it could be made up). No skateboarding, no rollerblading, no various and sundry activities.<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/12\/15\/lake-ontario-and-the-signs-that-regulate-our-relationship-with-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Lake Ontario and the signs that regulate our relationship with it&#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":[20,5],"tags":[983,1182,41,19],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-design","category-waterfront","tag-head","tag-lake-ontario","tag-psychogeography","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lake Ontario and the signs that regulate our relationship with it - 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\/2008\/12\/15\/lake-ontario-and-the-signs-that-regulate-our-relationship-with-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lake Ontario and the signs that regulate our relationship with it - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Sunday walk along a choppy Lake Ontario to deserted HtO Park yesterday presented little distraction from reading the many signs in the Harbourfront area. 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