{"id":580,"date":"2011-05-15T16:41:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2011-05-15T16:41:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T21:41:24","slug":"kitchener-waterloo-elora-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/kitchener-waterloo-elora-gorge\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchener-Waterloo &#038; Elora Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August of 2009, our niece, Alice, came for a visit as she does each summer. That year we took her down to see St.Jacob&#8217;s and Elora where there is a concentration of strict Mennonite communities. We stayed at a hotel in Kitchener and I woke early one morning at 5am and went out for a walk.  Here are some of the images from that walk and a few from the Elora Gorge:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/KWE01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A power grid humming through the wee hours in Kitchener, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/KWE02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Traffic circle, also known as a roundabout in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/KWE03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deserted shopping plaza lot at about 5:30am.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/KWE04.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instant tree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/KWE05.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decodeunicode.org\/en\/u+23cf\/data\/glyph\/196x196\/23CF.gif\">ejected<\/a> when passing here&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/KWE06.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our niece, Alice, in the Elora Gorge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/KWE07.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Random path above the Elora Gorge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/KWE08.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Owen negotiates a slippy edge, along the Grand River forming the Elora Gorge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/KWE09.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Mennonite wannabe, showing us their carriages which they use each day. \u00a0I say &#8220;wannabe&#8221; because he declared himself to not yet be Mennonite but said he felt comfortable referring to &#8220;we&#8221; and &#8220;us&#8221; in describing their culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August of 2009, our niece, Alice, came for a visit as she does each summer. That year we took her down to see St.Jacob&#8217;s and Elora where there is a concentration of strict Mennonite communities. We stayed at a hotel in Kitchener and I woke early one morning at 5am and went out for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-contrast","category-nature","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}