My favourite place in Beechwood village is Divisoria, a new store that sells \u201cPhilippine and Oriental\u201d goods. It\u2019s optimistic, this, placing a Chinatown corner store in an area dominated by either Franco or Anglo palates. Inside, where there might one day be customers, they try to sell canned sardines and karaoke machines, and behind the cash, affixed to the wall, hangs a heart cut out from a brown cardboard box upon which is proudly taped the first loonie they received from a sale.<\/p>\n

No, New Edinburgh, in spite of the presence of diplomats and politicians, still has a working-class shadow cast across it. And living there, with the houses so densely and imperfectly arranged, you can\u2019t help feeling an intimacy and sympathy with the diverse array of people around you, and this \u2014 this is a nice thing to feel in any neighbourhood. \u2014\u00a0Michael Murray<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although I grew up in Manor Park, I\u2019ve always loved New Edinburgh. It seemed urban, almost gritty in comparison. The houses \u2014 as mismatched as laundry hanging from a back-alley lane \u2014 are all scrunched together, giving the neighbourhood an authentic, unplanned feeling. It wasn\u2019t developed in an architect\u2019s office, but was built from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}