{"id":4965,"date":"2017-04-29T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=4965"},"modified":"2017-04-29T16:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T16:06:33","slug":"northview-heights-secondary-school-history-classes-and-gisela-sherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/northview-heights-secondary-school-history-classes-and-gisela-sherman\/","title":{"rendered":"Northview Heights Secondary School history classes and Gisela Sherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4966\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/northview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/northview.jpg 618w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/northview-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/northview-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the honour of speaking at Northview Heights a few times now, and I love meeting with grade 10 history students. In the past, I&#8217;ve spoken about the internment operations during WWI in Canada. This year, I proposed to Julia that I tailor a presentation just for her students. I love writing coming to Canada stories, and also exploring the lives of young people who are plunged into war. Canada&#8217;s strength comes from those who choose to be Canadian. It was a wonderful visit on April 19th.<\/p>\n<p>My friend and fellow writer, Gisela Sherman, came to Northview to watch me present. She was writing a profile piece about me for CANSCAIP news. I was shocked and saddened when she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorsbooking.com\/wp\/in-sympathy-to-gisela-shermans-family-friends-colleagues-and-readers\/\">died on April 23<\/a>. She may be tucked somewhere unobtrusively in this picture:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4967\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/northview2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"910\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/northview2.jpg 910w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/northview2-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/northview2-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am grateful that I was able to have a few more hours with Gisela before she died. Do hug a friend today. You never know when it will be the last time you can do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the honour of speaking at Northview Heights a few times now, and I love meeting with grade 10 history students. In the past, I&#8217;ve spoken about the internment operations during WWI in Canada. This year, I proposed to Julia that I tailor a presentation just for her students. I love writing coming to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/northview-heights-secondary-school-history-classes-and-gisela-sherman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northview Heights Secondary School history classes and Gisela Sherman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965","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=4965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}