{"id":4083,"date":"2009-03-05T13:02:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/03\/05\/challenge-175-reasons-why-we-love-toronto\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:51:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:51:50","slug":"challenge-175-reasons-why-we-love-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/03\/05\/challenge-175-reasons-why-we-love-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 175 Reasons Why We Love Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gencat.eloquent-systems.com\/webcat\/systems\/toronto.arch\/resource\/fo1498\/f1498_it0016.jpg\" height=\"387\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Toronto in 1856, looking north up York St. to Osgoode Hall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Toronto&#8217;s 175th anniversary and Spacing has two special announcements coming forth. We&#8217;re excited by both and think our readers will be too.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we want to kick off the celebrations with a call-to-arms to our readers: We want to break Spacing Toronto&#8217;s record of most comments on a single post (The current record is <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/01\/29\/city-council-boards-the-drl-bandwagon\/\">140 comments on the recent post<\/a> about the Downtown Relief Line).<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are challenging you, collectively, to give us 175 reasons (comments) to love Toronto. <\/strong>You can only give one reason per comment, though you can comment as many times as you wish. 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