{"id":2574,"date":"2014-09-28T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T16:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla2.com\/wordpress\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2014-09-28T11:50:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T16:50:36","slug":"winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/winnipeg\/","title":{"rendered":"Arriving in Winnipeg on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I flew in last Tuesday to Winnipeg for the Thin Air Literary Festival in Winnipeg. I was picked up from the airport by a Thin Air volunteer and had the most fascinating conversation about World War II on the way to the hotel.<\/p>\n

Once I dumped my stuff in the room, I met up with Ian P, a very talented kidcrit<\/a> member. I LOVE meeting kidcritters in person. It takes a special bond to share and constructively crit writing and that’s what we do amongst ourselves. We do have kidcrit litgets every year or so in Toronto, but Winnipeg has a LOT of kidcritters, former and current as well.<\/p>\n

Here is the view from my Inn on the Forks hotel room:<\/p>\n

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Ironic, really, seeing as I had been misquoted<\/a> all week in a Reuters news article about this very place. For the record, what I said is that a Canadian Human Rights museum has a mandate to concentrate on lesser-known Canadian human rights stories, rather than showcasing atrocities that are well known, and my examples of lesser-known injustices were Canada’s treatment of First Nations people and Canada’s internment of “enemy aliens” during the First World War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I flew in last Tuesday to Winnipeg for the Thin Air Literary Festival in Winnipeg. I was picked up from the airport by a Thin Air volunteer and had the most fascinating conversation about World War II on the way to the hotel. Once I dumped my stuff in the room, I met up with … Continue reading “Arriving in Winnipeg on Tuesday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}