{"id":3166,"date":"2022-06-29T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2022-06-29T21:59:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T04:59:16","slug":"our-talented-valerie-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"OUR TALENTED VALERIE SINCLAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Valerie Sinclair wrote this poem after spending several years teaching in MacKenzie.  Even after she moved to Prince George, she remembers the brutally cold winters in the early 1980&#8217;s. Spring was so welcome after such harsh winters. The winters don&#8217;t seem so cruel anymore, but spring is still welcomed by all of us who live in the north.<\/strong>  <strong>Valerie&#8217;s poem was published in the 2022 spring edition of the retired teachers magazine Postscript.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Valerie-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Valerie-2-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Valerie-2-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Valerie-2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Valerie-2-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Valerie-2-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Valerie-2.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_9183-crop-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_9183-crop-991x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3172\" width=\"433\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_9183-crop-991x1024.jpg 991w, https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_9183-crop-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_9183-crop-768x794.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_9183-crop-1486x1536.jpg 1486w, https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_9183-crop-1981x2048.jpg 1981w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Valerie and Rod manning the information desk!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Sinclair wrote this poem after spending several years teaching in MacKenzie. Even after she moved to Prince George, she remembers the brutally cold winters in the early 1980&#8217;s. Spring was so welcome after such harsh winters. The winters don&#8217;t seem so cruel anymore, but spring is still welcomed by all of us who live&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/?p=3166\"><span>Read More<\/span><i>&#43;<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pal9FT-P4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pgauxiliary.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}