{"id":3498,"date":"2013-04-30T00:05:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T04:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2013-04-29T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:55:20","slug":"a-little-romance-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2013\/04\/30\/a-little-romance-in-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"A little romance in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3499\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/04\/LocksOnRideauCanalForPOTD.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3499\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3499\" title=\"LocksOnRideauCanalForPOTD\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/04\/LocksOnRideauCanalForPOTD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/04\/LocksOnRideauCanalForPOTD.jpg 570w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/04\/LocksOnRideauCanalForPOTD-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pedestrian bridge over the Rideau Canal has become a place for lovers to secure a lock bearing their names. Photo: Judy Andrus Toporcer, Pierrepont, NY<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Photo of the Day submission from Judy Andrus Toporcer (<a href=\"http:\/\/WizenedEye.com\">WizenedEye.com<\/a>) brought a little romance into my day. A lovely sentiment to mark a lover&#8217;s spot&#8211;put a lock on your commitment to one another and throw away the key.<\/p>\n<p>Wanting to know more about this, I soon discovered that this Ottawa landmark has been photographed and written about in a number of places, and is the subject of this video explainer on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"570\" height=\"428\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xwT38uMrdq0?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xwT38uMrdq0?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And researching further, I find that the phenomenon is spreading worldwide, with &#8220;love locks&#8221; being placed in a prominent way in cities across this and other continents: Prague, Rome, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Seoul, Paris, The Brooklyn Bridge, Mount Huang in China. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_locations_with_love_padlocks\">The locations are listed, with photos, on Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This great an outpouring of romance cannot, of course, remain unattended by commercial exploitation. I find <a href=\"http:\/\/lovelocksonline.com\/\">this website<\/a> which promotes the romantic practice of love lock placement, and conveniently offers for sale custom padlocks shaped like twined hearts, with personalized engraving. At $25 plus $18 for engraving, it could be cheaper than dinner and a movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Photo of the Day submission from Judy Andrus Toporcer (WizenedEye.com) brought a little romance [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[880,5389,11645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}