{"id":8405,"date":"2021-04-04T13:49:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T17:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2021-04-15T06:46:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T10:46:11","slug":"episode-300-life-and-death-in-the-largest-ffish-bowl-on-plnet-earth-the-great-lakes-speech-feb-29-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8405","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 300 LIFE AND DEATH IN THE LARGEST FFISH BOWL ON PLNET EARTH; the great lakes speech feb. 29, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 300: LIFE AND DEATH IN THE LARGEST FISH BOWL ON PLANET EARTH (PART ONE)<\/div>\n

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SPEECH AT STONEHOOKER BREWERY (PART 1)<\/div>\n
FEB. 29,2020<\/div>\n

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ALAN SKEOCH<\/div>\n
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I HAVE NO BOAT.  I HAVE NO FISHING ROD.  I HAVE NO SPEAR. I CAN SWIM BUT POORLY SO.<\/div>\n
 BUT I DO HAVE IMAGINATION.<\/div>\n
TODAY WE STAND ON THE EDGE OF THE GREATEST SOURCE OF FRESH WATER IN THE WORLD.<\/div>\n
A WORLD THAT WILL NEED  THIS WATER IN FUTURE YEARS.  FOR WE ARE ALL MADE MOSTLY OF<\/div>\n
WATER.<\/div>\n

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Today<\/div>\n
I STAND HERE AND MARVEL AT THE FORCES THAT GROUND OUT THIS HUGE AND  DEEP SERIES <\/div>\n
OF LAKES.  GREAT LAKES INDEED   IT IS  A HUMBLING EXPERIENCE.<\/div>\n

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 I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU MY EXPERIENCE WITH THIS LAKE.  SOME  FIRST HAND\u2026SOME<\/div>\n
SECOND  HAND.   EIGHT DECADES HAS  BEEN LOTS OF TIME TO WONDER.  BUT EIGHT DECADES<\/div>\n
IS ONLY AS A GRAIN OF SAND ON THE BEACHES OF THIS LAKE.<\/div>\n

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A TITLE?    \u201cLIFE AND DEATH IN THE LARGEST FISH BOWL ON PLANET EARTH”<\/div>\n

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THIS LAKE WAS NOT ALWAYS HERE.  BEFORE LAKE ONTARIO EMERGED  THERE WAS  A HUGE <\/div>\n
INLAND  SEA .   A SEA SO BIG THAT IT COVERED MOST OF THE PLANET EARTH.  BENEATH US<\/div>\n
THAT SEA HAS LEFT REMINDERS.   FOSSILIZED CREATURES PRESSED INTO ANCIENT MUD, NOW<\/div>\n
SHALE.<\/div>\n

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SOME OF THE  FIRST CREATURES TO LIVE ON OUR PLANET.   CREATURES SO OLD THAT EVEN<\/div>\n
THE BEST MINDS IN THIS ROOM WILL BE BOGGLED.   CREATURES  588 MILLION YEARS OLD\u2026CREATURES<\/div>\n
THAT LIVED IN THIS ORDOVICIAN SEA FOR 43 MILLON YEARS AND THEN IN THE TWINKLING OF THE EYE<\/div>\n
OF TIME WERE GONE.  MOST WERE GONE IN ONE OF THE FIVE GREAT EXTINCTIONS THAT HAVE<\/div>\n
HAPPENED HERE.<\/div>\n

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LET ME DESCRIBE ONE OF THESE CREATURES.  THE CRINOID.  AN ANIMAL  THAT LOOKED LIKE<\/div>\n
A PLANT.    FEET THAT GRASPED  THE SEA BOTTOM.  A LONG SPINAL CHORD THAT LOOKED LIKE<\/div>\n
A PIECE OF ROPE.  AT TOP THAT HAD MANY LONG TENTACLES THAT GRABBED PLANKTON AND<\/div>\n
SHOVED THE FOOD  INTO A GAPING MOUTH.  AN  ANIMAL WITH MOUTH AND BUM LOCATED SIDE<\/div>\n
BY SIDE. MOST CRINOIDS ARE SMALL BUT NOT ALL WERE SUCH. THE LARGEST WAS  140 FEET LONG.<\/div>\n
 EXTINCT NOW?  NOT QUITE.  ONE WAS  SIGHTED IN THE BAHAMAS RECENTLY.<\/div>\n

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YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO MEET THIS GUY\u2026NAUTILOIDS ARE CARNIVEROUS\u2026SOME STILL EXIST DEEP IN<\/div>\n
THE PACIFIC OCEAN\u2026THEY ARE NOCTURNAL\u2026NASTY.<\/div>\n

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FOSSIL OF A GIANT TRILOBITE FOUND IN AUSTRALIA.  SMALLER TRILOBITES<\/div>\n
ARE COMMON FOSSILS FOUND IN SEDIMENTARY ROCK AROUND THE GREAT LAKES.<\/div>\n

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NAUTILOIDS AND  TRILOBITES SWAM AMONG THE CRINOIDS.  STRANGE CREATURES.<\/div>\n
PALEOZOIC ERA WHICH LASTED  FROM 542 TO 250 MILLION YEARS AGO\u2026300 MILLION YEARS!<\/div>\n

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THE BAHAMAS.  THAT IS WHERE PORT CREDIT WAS MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO.  IN THE TROPICS.  THE EARTH<\/div>\n
IS A LIVING THING\u2026IT MOVES AROUND.  WE LIVE ON TOP OF THESE HUGE TECTONIC PLATES FLOATING<\/div>\n
ON THE LIQUID MAGMA BENEATH US.<\/div>\n

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YOU CAN  FIND CRINOIDS IF YOU WANT TO.  EASY.  JUST FIND A  SHINGLE BEACH LIKE THE RATTRAY<\/div>\n
MARSH.  THOSE SHINGLES\u2026FLAT SLABS  OF SHALE\u2026ARE MILLIONS  OF  YEARS OLD AND IMPRESSED<\/div>\n
IN MANY ARE CRINOID  FOSSILS.   <\/div>\n

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ONE TINY SHINGLE BEACH STILL EXISTS IN PORT CREDIT.   BUT NOT FOR LONG.  DEVELOPERS WILL SOON<\/div>\n
GOBBLE THAT UP.  <\/div>\n

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THE GAP BETWEEN THEN AND NOW IS MILLIONS OF YEARS WIDE.  TOO WIDE FOR MY MIND TO DO<\/div>\n
ANYTHING BUT MARVEL.<\/div>\n

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MY  STORIES ARE MOSTLY PLACED IN THE PRESENT\u2026.THE LAST 200 YEARS.   LONG AFTER THE GLACIERS<\/div>\n
GROUND OUT OUR LAKE BOTTOM\u2026THEN FILLED THAT HUGE CAVITY WITH MELT WATER.<\/div>\n

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MY STORIES  ARE SHORT.  <\/div>\n

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  The Port Credit Monster…July 1892, Mr. and Mrs. Park spotted a serpent near Kingston…”eyes looked like balls of fire…” attacked them he fought it off with a pole.  Repeated sightings followed.  Oshawa, Whitby, Main Duck Islands…it was heading our way…fisherman claimed it was 40 feet long, 18 inches thick…Scarborough, Toronto…kids began  making sea monsters out of logs…August 1,1892…monster sighted off Port Credit…marathon swimmers training at the time…saw the monster…10 feet long…”Get out of the water, quick!”, screamed parents to the kids of Port Credit…At dusk Ambrose Adams, park caretaker set out in a rowboat to investigate…took a crowbar with him…newspaper sent a reporter…Adams returned at dark, announced the danger had passed for he had captured the monster and tied it to the lighthouse.  Newspaper reporter went wild…got a boat and flashlight…found the monster…a wooden rocking horse with a long tail of seaweed attached….Did that end the sightings…No.  Oct. 12, 1892, Port Credit fire chief William Newman and his son-in-law reported they had seen a creature 100 feet long.  “Without a mistake”  “We were standing on the shore close to the Port Credit Lighthouse when we sighted the serpent coming toward us, and travelling at something like 30 miles an hour.  It had a large, green head, resembling that of a lion, and would be about 20 feet in length.” The Chief said it swam in a zigzag course…water foamed around it.   People crowded Port Credit beaches in 1892.  But the serpent was never seen again.  Maybe one of you will see it someday.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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THAT WAS A FAKE MONSTER\u2026FOOLED MANY.  BUT BELIEVE YOU ME THERE ARE MONSTERS IN OUR LAKE.<\/div>\n

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FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS HUMANS LIVED ALONG OUR LAKESHORE AND  UP THE CREDIT RIVER.  THEY<\/div>\n
DEPENDED UPON THE LAKE FOR THEIR SURVIVAL AND  THE LAKE NEVER FAILED THEM.  EACH YEAR THEIR <\/div>\n
DRYING RACKS WERE FESTOONED  WITH ATLANTIC SALMON SPEARED  WITH EASE AT THE MOUTH OF THE<\/div>\n
CREDIT RIVER.<\/div>\n

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SOME MONSTERS  WERE HUMAN<\/div>\n

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FIRST NATION PEOPLE\u2019S  HISTORY ON THE CREDIT RIVER AND LAKE ONTARIO IS MUCH LONGER THAN THOSE OF EUROPEANS.  PERHAPS<\/div>\n
THE WORST EVENT OCCURRED HERE   WHEN THE MISSISSAUGA CANOES RETURNED FROM TORONTO<\/div>\n
WITH THE BODY OF CHIEF WABAKININE  AND HIS  WIFE.   BOTH MURDERED BY SGT McEWEN OF THE QUEEN\u2019S <\/div>\n
YORK RANGERS AND A COUPLE OF WHITE SETTLERS.    MY WIFE, MARJORIE, DOES NOT LIKE ME TO TELL THIS<\/div>\n
STORY FOR IT REFLECTS POORLY ON HUMAN BEHAVIOUR.   LAUNDERING HISTORY IS HARD TO JUSTIFY.<\/div>\n
MCEWEN  AND  HIS FRIENDS  WERE INTENT OF RAPE\u2026DRAGGED  CHIEF WABAKININE\u2019S SISTER FROM BENEATH<\/div>\n
HER CANOE ONE NIGHT.  THE CHIEF\u2019S WIFE ALERTED THE CHIEF WHO TRIED TO INTERVENE.  HE HAD BEEN<\/div>\n
DRINKING.  HE WAS  BEATEN SO BADLY HE DIED\u2026AS  DID HIS WIFE.  MCEWEN WAS  ARRESTED BUT THE CASE<\/div>\n
WENT NOWHERE.   THIS  NEARLY TRIGGERED A WAR THAT THE MISSISSAUGAS MEIGHT HAVE WON HAD NOT<\/div>\n
JOSEPH GRANT  INTERVENED.   CAUTIONED THAT BRITISH  ARMY WAS TOO LARGE TO FIGHT.<\/div>\n
THE CHIEF AND  HIS WIFE WERE BURIED HERE\u2026SOMEWHERE.<\/div>\n

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 Push came to shove in an even more ghastly way.  Again water was involved.  Chief Wabikinine, his wife and sister, paddled along our waterfront en route to Fort York to trade skins and dried salmon.  Trading involved brandy.   Traders were an unscrupulous lot in general.  Get the natives drunk, makes trading easier…more one sided.  Wabakinine was to be followed by the rest of the band the next day.<\/div>\n
He got into the brandy early.  Tottered to bed in his tent.  A soldier from Fort York, Sgt Mcuen by name, and a couple of settlers, came along and pulled Wabakinine’s sister out from under her canoe where she was sleeping.  Wabakinine and his wife tried to stop them.  He was clobbered on the head as was his wife…more than a concussion…a fatal blow.  The band found him and took him home along our waterfront…perhaps to Bronte harbour, maybe here in Port Credit…where he died.   Nearly triggered a First Nation war…which was  the last chance of a Mississauga victory for warriors were available.  But Joseph Brant cautioned against action.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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AFTER A  BEWILDERING SERIES OF TREATIES AND LAND \u2019SURRENDERS’,\u2026THE SURVIVORS OF EUROPEAN DISEASES AND DECEPTIONS MOVED TO THE NEW CREIDT <\/div>\n
RESERVE WHERE THEY LIVE TO THIS  DAY.  I SPOKE THERE A YEAR AGO AND WAS TREATED WARMLY I MIGHT ADD.<\/div>\n

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IN THOSE EARLY YEARS, LAKE ONTARIO WAS THE ONLY ROAD\u2026A WATER ROAD. SO PLACES LIKE PORT CREDIT WITH<\/div>\n
A NATURAL SHELTERED HARBOUR WERE IMPORTANT.  SO IMPORTANT WAS THE CREDIT RIVER THAT JOHN  GRAVES<\/div>\n
SIMCOE CONSIDERED LOCATING HIS GOVERNMENT HERE RATHER THAN TORONTO.  THE NAVIGABLE PART OF THE<\/div>\n
 CREDIT RIVER WAS TOO SHORT.  HAD THE REVERSE HAPPENED OUR VILLAGE WOULD HAVE BECOME  A METROPOLIS<\/div>\n
DOMINATED BY THE CN TOWER.<\/div>\n

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THIS SEEMS A GOOD TIME TO CONSIDER THE  LAKE ITSELF.<\/div>\n

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SETTLERS FLOODED ONTARIO IN THE 19TH CENTURY.  THEIR IMPACT CHANGED THE LAKE.  THEY BUTCHERED THE FORESTS FOR BARREL STAVES, LUMBER AND  MASTS FOR THE<\/div>\n
KING\u2019S SHIPS.  THEY SET FIRES EVERYWHERE FOR FOR POTASH TO MAKE EXPLOSIVES AND PERFUME.  THEY KILLED THE ATLANTIC SALMON WHOSE  GILLS COULD  NOT HANDLE SAWDUST.  WORSE  <\/div>\n
STILL WERE THE DAMS.  WATER WAS  POWER BUT ONLY IF THE RIVERS WERE DAMMED.  THE DAMS HAMPERED FISH FROM SPAWNING.   THE CONSTANT DUMPING OF RAW SEWAGE<\/div>\n
DID NOT HELP.  WE WERE FOULING OUR OWN NEST.  FISH REPRODUCTION WAS DIFFICULT\u2026HOW COULD  FISH  GET OVER A DAM?  <\/div>\n

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THE PROBLEM OF POLLUTANTS BECAME SO SEVERE BY 1977 THAT BOTH CANADA  AND THE UNITED STATES  PASSED THE CLEAN WATER ACT THAT MADE THE DUMPING OF<\/div>\n
RAW SEWAGE AND  INDUSTIRAL POLLUTANTS  IN STREAMS AND RIVERS  WAS MADE A CRIMINAL OFFENCE.  THE TRIGGER FOR ACTION WAS A RIVER IN NEW  YORK STATE<\/div>\n
THAT REGULARLY BURST INTO FIRE.    THAT DID NOT HAPPEN UNTIL LATE IN THE 20TH CENTURY.    THE CLEAN WATER ACT WAS ACCLAIMED AS LONG OVERDUE.  BUT IT WAS LIMIED<\/div>\n
TO SEWER PIPES AND FACTORY DRAINS.  NOTHING WAS SAID ABOUT PESTICIDE RUNOFF FROM FARM FIELDS.<\/div>\n

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REMEMBER THE LAKE MONSTER\u202610 TO 100 FEET LONG WITH A DRAGON HEAD.  SPOTTED OFFSHORE AT PORT CREDIT IN 1893?  REMEMBER I SAID THERE WOULD BE  WORSE MONSTERS.<\/div>\n
BY 1960 THE FISH IN LAKE  ONTARIO WERE BEING KILLED BY A REAL  MONSTER.  ONE OF THESE MONSTERS  COULD KILL 18 KILOGRAMS OF SALMON, TROUT OR STURGEON.   THE MONSTER<\/div>\n
IS THE SEA LAMPREY.   UGLY THINGS WITH A HEAD  LIKE A SINK PLUNGER ONLY FILLED WITH HOOKS.  GRABS A SALMON AND SUCKS  ITS FLESH AND BLOOD UNTIL THE FISH DIES.  ONE LAMPRY<\/div>\n
WAS KILLING DOZENS OF LARGE FISH IN LAKE ONTARIO BY 1960.  SO MANY THAT THE WHOLE FISHERY WAS  IN JEOPARDY.   THE  PROBLEM HAS BEEN  PARTIALLY SOLVED BY PUTTING LAMPREY<\/div>\n
POISON IN THE HEADWATERS OF OUR  CREEKS AND RIVERS WHERE THEY BREED.   90% HAVE BEEN REMOVED.  NOT PERFECT.<\/div>\n

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BY 1960 THE LAKE ONTARIO FISHERY WAS IN JEOPARDY FOR MANY REASONS. POLLUTION AND LAMPREYS WERE ONLY TWO  OF THEM.  OVERFISHING.  NO  LIMITS.<\/div>\n
NO PRESERVATIVES BUT BLOCKS OF ICE HARVESTED IN WINTER TIME AND STACKED IN FLIMSY ICE  SHACKS TO TRY AND STAVE OF DECOMPOSITION.   <\/div>\n

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HOW MANY FISH COLD GET THROUGH THIS FISH NET?  NOT MANY.<\/div>\n

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LITTLE MENTION IS MADE OF THIS FISHERY BY HISTORIANS.  PERHAPS  BECAUSE NO GREAT WEALTH EVER CAME FROM IT.  BUT THERE ARE SNIPPETS HERE AND<\/div>\n
THERE SUCH AS THE 1927 NOTE IN THE BRAMPTON COMPOSITOR THAT THE LARGEST LAKE TROUT EVER CAUGHT WAS  NETTED BY A.J. JOYCE OF PORT CREDIT, A FISHERMAN.\u2019<\/div>\n
THAT TROUT WEIGHED 32.5 POUNDS.  BY 1917 COMMERCIAL FISHING WAS A DYING INDUSTRY.  POLLUTION, SEA LAMPREYS, OVERFISHING.  <\/div>\n

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SEE FUTURE EPISODES <\/div>\n

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WE ARE ENJOYING DINNER IN THE STONEHOOKER BREWERY, NAMED IN HONOUR OF PORT CREDIT\u2019S STONEHOOKING PAST<\/div>\n

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 ON ANY GIVEN DAY IN THE 19TH CENTURY THERE WOULD<\/div>\n
BE 25 TO 30 SCHOONERS ANCHORED IN PORT CREDIT.   FEW OF THEM FISHED FOR FISH.  MOST OF THEM FISHED FOR SLABS  OF SEDIMENTARY ROCK…SHALE.  STONEHOOKERS THEY WERE CALLED.<\/div>\n
UNIQUE.  PECULIAR.  STONEHOOKERS USED OLD SCHOONERS\u2026SAILING SHIPS RENDERED OBSOLETE BY STEAM POWERED SHIPS.  MOST OF THESE STONEHOOKERS WERE NOT<\/div>\n
PRETTY TO LOOK AT.  MORE ABOUT THEM WILL COME IN LATER EPISODES.<\/div>\n

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WHY WOULD PEOPLE WANT TO \u2018FISH FOR SLABS OF ROCK\u2019?  THINK ABOUT IT.<\/div>\n

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TYPICAL  STONEHOOKING SCHOONER IN PORT CREDIT HARBOUR CIRCA 1900<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 300: LIFE AND DEATH IN THE LARGEST FISH BOWL ON PLANET EARTH (PART ONE) SPEECH AT STONEHOOKER BREWERY (PART 1) FEB. 29,2020 ALAN SKEOCH FEB. 29, 2020  updated April 2, 2021 I HAVE NO BOAT.  I HAVE NO FISHING ROD.  I HAVE NO SPEAR. I CAN SWIM BUT POORLY SO.  BUT I DO HAVE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}