{"id":482,"date":"2011-02-06T13:39:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T21:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2012-05-07T06:57:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T14:57:45","slug":"the-monument-for-east-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/the-monument-for-east-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monument for East Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><strong>Ken Lum&#8217;s public art piece, &#8220;Monument for East Vancouver&#8221; transforms an ad-hoc symbol of regional pride (or defiance, membership or territorial claim) into a new landmark on the city&#8217;s skyline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ken Lum&#039;s Monument for East Vancouver\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jr3ZGv-BFAc?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This piece is controversial&#8230; Some people love it, and some people hate it.<\/p>\n<p>There are many opinions and interpretations of where the East Van cross came from, and what it means&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/article-281162\/vancouver\/what-heck-east-van-cross\">http:\/\/www.straight.com\/article-281162\/vancouver\/what-heck-east-van-cross<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vancouverisawesome.com\/2010\/01\/12\/east-van-cross\/\">http:\/\/vancouverisawesome.com\/2010\/01\/12\/east-van-cross\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have gradually grown to love this piece. It stands at the corner of Clark Drive and Great Northern Way, facing downtown Vancouver like a ginormous middle finger, as if to say &#8220;Take that, rest of the city! We&#8217;re East Van!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like it or not, it&#8217;s definitely a symbol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ken Lum&#8217;s public art piece, &#8220;Monument for East Vancouver&#8221; transforms an ad-hoc symbol of regional pride (or defiance, membership or territorial claim) into a new landmark on the city&#8217;s skyline.<\/p>\n<p>This piece is controversial&#8230; Some people love it, and some people hate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,12],"tags":[39,62,33],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-inspiration","tag-culture","tag-design","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}