{"id":1736,"date":"2024-03-11T07:17:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2024-03-11T07:27:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:27:31","slug":"victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"Victoria&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is, according to an article linked to the Globular Male front page, the most liveable city in Canada:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1737\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1737\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1737\" src=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"199\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fair city.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1738\" src=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vic-in-Bloom-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vic-in-Bloom-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vic-in-Bloom-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vic-in-Bloom-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vic-in-Bloom-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vic-in-Bloom-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vic-in-Bloom-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of the lyrics I first heard from Joan Baez long ago:<\/p>\n<p>What hills, what hills are those, my love<br \/>\nThat rise so fair and high?<br \/>\nThose are the hills of heaven, my love<br \/>\nBut not for you and I<\/p>\n<p>And what hills, what hills are those, my love<br \/>\nThose hills so dark and low?<br \/>\nThose are the hills of hell, my love<br \/>\nWhere you and I must go.<\/p>\n<p>The price of both rents and real estate ownership, as well as the disconnect between prices and current salary levels are an inhibiting factor in keeping people as far as possible from agglomerations with favourable climate, cultural depth and diversity, and security of life and limb. Victoria is also in the throes of becoming a victim of its own success, a process of Cory Doctorow&#8217;s enshittification and the fraying of the fabric of society.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aCQK3ii1uJs?si=A835kQM2E5vM94dK\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is, according to an article linked to the Globular Male front page, the most liveable city in Canada: I&#8217;m reminded of the lyrics I first heard from Joan Baez long ago: What hills, what hills are those, my love That &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=1736\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,13,5,3,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosphere","category-juststuff","category-kultcha","category-money","category-politics","category-working-for-a-living","category-hell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}