{"id":109,"date":"2010-03-03T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T06:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/?p=109"},"modified":"2010-03-03T01:02:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T07:02:17","slug":"holy-crap-i-like-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Holy Crap I Like Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a couple of hours at night in <strong>Old Montreal<\/strong> (or <strong>Vieux-Montr\u00e9al<\/strong> in French) recently.\u00a0 What an incredible place!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-110\" title=\"Montreal-10\" src=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-10.jpg 533w, http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-10-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is looking from the steps of the Notre-Dame Basilica towards the Bank of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-111\" title=\"Montreal-15\" src=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-15.jpg 640w, http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-15-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the site of Montreal&#8217;s City Hall.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the most beautiful buildings in the city is getting a face-lift.\u00a0 Rather than putting up with the scaffolding and clutter during the work, they stretch printed sheets over the work area.\u00a0 The result is some sort of surreal replica of the building hidden inside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112\" title=\"Montreal-11\" src=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-11.jpg 425w, http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-11-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Residents work and live in this historic community.\u00a0 This is an apartment complex in the foreground and the impressive Aldred Building rising behind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113\" title=\"Montreal-13\" src=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-13.jpg 640w, http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-13-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cobblestoned streets, multicolored lights and old stone construction make even the more neglected buildings wonderful to look at.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114\" title=\"Montreal-12\" src=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-12.jpg 640w, http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-12-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Vieux district overlooks a still active port on the St. Lawrence River.\u00a0 The row of shops, art galleries, restaurants and apartments just at the edge of the riverway create a visual gateway to the old city district.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115\" title=\"Montreal-14\" src=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-14.jpg 640w, http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Montreal-14-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still another remarkable building, the Old Court House, is built in a neo-Classical design.<\/p>\n<p>I want to go back, spend more time, and try the food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a couple of hours at night in Old Montreal (or Vieux-Montr\u00e9al in French) recently.\u00a0 What an incredible place! This is looking from the steps of the Notre-Dame Basilica towards the Bank of Montreal. This is the site of Montreal&#8217;s City Hall.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the most beautiful buildings in the city is getting a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/?p=109\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holy Crap I Like Montreal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}