{"id":98,"date":"2015-02-18T01:24:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/?p=98"},"modified":"2015-02-13T01:42:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:42:43","slug":"musical-interlude-1949-time-for-the-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/2015\/02\/18\/musical-interlude-1949-time-for-the-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Interlude 1949:  Time for the Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/2015\/02\/14\/time-for-the-fair-episode-13\/%20\u200e\">Episode 13<\/a>, Billy encounters Pops\u00a0and his new bride in 1949. \u00a0They dance to the music of\u00a0Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians. \u00a0Guy Lombardo was Canada&#8217;s most famous bandleader. \u00a0He and his siblings had an orchestra that was popular for almost\u00a050 years, from the 1920s until his death in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about <a title=\"Wikipedia: Guy Lombardo\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Lombardo\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Lombardo on wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sampler of their music from the 1960s.<br \/>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B5zs8urFg8Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Wikipedia: SS NORONIC\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Noronic\" target=\"_blank\">SS Noronic<\/a> was great lakes cruise ship that burned and sank in Toronto Harbour on September 4,\u00a01949. \u00a0139 people died in the fire and its aftermath. It was one of the greatest marine disasters in the world. \u00a0In life, as in the story, the remains of the Noronic victims were taken to a makeshift morgue on the CNE grounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AWreck_of_the_SS_Noronic_-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100\" src=\"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Wreck_of_the_SS_Noronic_-a.jpg\" alt=\"By Andrew Merrilees [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"760\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Wreck_of_the_SS_Noronic_-a.jpg 760w, https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Wreck_of_the_SS_Noronic_-a-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Episode 13, Billy encounters Pops\u00a0and his new bride in 1949. \u00a0They dance to the music of\u00a0Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians. \u00a0Guy Lombardo was Canada&#8217;s most famous bandleader. \u00a0He and his siblings had an orchestra that was popular for almost\u00a050 years, from the 1920s until his death in 1977. You can find out more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/2015\/02\/18\/musical-interlude-1949-time-for-the-fair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musical Interlude 1949:  Time for the Fair<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,5],"tags":[29,14,31,21,33,13,22,19],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extras","category-random-stuff","tag-29","tag-cne","tag-noronic","tag-sean-mcgaughey","tag-ss-noronic","tag-t4tf","tag-time-for-the-fair","tag-timeforthefair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5lPCv-1A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}