{"id":1849,"date":"2019-11-30T01:41:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T01:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2019-11-30T01:41:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T01:41:57","slug":"vancouver-histories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/30\/vancouver-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver histories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Vancouver-Special-Charles-Demers-ebook\/dp\/B005PYJWQE\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=vancouver+special%2C+demers&amp;qid=1575077931&amp;sr=8-1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/basil2011.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/51afeug4udl-_sl500_aa300_.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-300\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am much enjoying rereading &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arsenalpulp.com\/bookinfo.php?index=308\">Vancouver Special<\/a>,&#8221; a funny but unsparing collection of essays written by local writer and comic Charles Demers and published by Arsenal Pulp Press (with photographs by Emmanuel Buenviaje). A note in his chapter on the Downtown Eastside led me to the wonderful blog &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com\/about\/\">Past Tense: fragments of Vancouver&#8217;s history and reflections thereon<\/a>&#8221; published by &#8220;activist historian&#8221; Lani Russwurm. There you can find an astonishing gallery of videos documenting Vancouver&#8217;s past, including the two below: a 1956 interview with a skid row drifter, and a 1964 National Film Board propaganda piece documenting &#8220;urban blight.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7cP7JYeqj9Q&amp;feature=player_embedded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/basil2011.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/3.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-301\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A2xdYUk4iAY&amp;feature=player_embedded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/basil2011.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-302\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am much enjoying rereading &#8220;Vancouver Special,&#8221; a funny but unsparing collection of essays written by local writer and comic Charles Demers and published by Arsenal Pulp Press (with photographs by Emmanuel Buenviaje). A note in his chapter on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/30\/vancouver-histories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[31,40,105],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-documentary","tag-film","tag-vancouver"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}