{"id":1703,"date":"2017-02-13T09:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T13:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2017-02-13T09:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T13:34:05","slug":"zak-metcalfe-on-purcells-coves-elegance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"Zak Metcalfe on Purcells Cove\u2019s elegance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DSC04050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DSC04050-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"dsc04050\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DSC04050-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DSC04050-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I think we have another Backlands fan: &#8220;I never lived in a city before Halifax, needing always to be within walking distance of the wild and that\u2019s something urban life simply couldn\u2019t offer, not like the Confederation Trail in rural P.E.I. or the uncleared lots of farm country Ontario. But Halifax surprised me, because my house hunt took me to Purcells Cove and, consequently, the Purcells Cove Conservation Lands&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>View <a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/thenovascotian\/1441107-purcells-cove%E2%80%99s-elegance-uncovered\">Purcells Cove\u2019s elegance uncovered<\/a> (CH, Feb 12, 2017)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we have another Backlands fan: &#8220;I never lived in a city before Halifax, needing always to be within walking distance of the wild and that\u2019s something urban life simply couldn\u2019t offer, not like the Confederation Trail in rural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1703\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}