{"id":2644,"date":"2011-12-29T17:04:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T21:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2011-12-29T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T21:07:00","slug":"canadas-2011-photo-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s 2011 Photo of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2645\" title=\"crosbywc\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/crosbywc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/crosbywc.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/crosbywc-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Sydney Crosby &#8211; down and out. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The injury to Sid the Kid was international hockey news. His anticipated return to competition was the topic of speculation\u00a0for months through 2011 in\u00a0coffee shops from Cole Harbour to Trail. This particular photo of the\u00a0young superstar on his knees captures both the individual&#8217;s hurt and pain, and the sorry state of the NHL\u00a0with its inability to deal properly with\u00a0head blows.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02011 was the year of the concussion-discussion &#8211; and Sidney was at the centre of it all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Honourable mentions for Canada&#8217;s photo of the year include the victorious smile of Prime Minister Stephen Harper on election night; the cane-waving of campaigner Jack Layton; and the hockey rioters\u00a0in Vancouver after the\u00a0seventh game\u00a0of the Stanley Cup Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/crosbywc.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Crosby &#8211; down and out. The injury to Sid the Kid was international hockey news. His anticipated return to competition was the topic of speculation\u00a0for months through 2011 in\u00a0coffee shops from Cole Harbour to Trail. This particular photo of the\u00a0young superstar on his knees captures both the individual&#8217;s hurt and pain, and the sorry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}