{"id":51,"date":"2024-09-09T04:33:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T04:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/?p=51"},"modified":"2024-09-09T04:33:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T04:33:33","slug":"5-surprising-facts-about-vancouvers-lights-you-probably-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/2024\/09\/09\/5-surprising-facts-about-vancouvers-lights-you-probably-didnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Surprising Facts About Vancouver\u2019s Lights You Probably Didn\u2019t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"52\" src=\"https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/kobe-tang-R7Swh8mQxKc-unsplash-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/kobe-tang-R7Swh8mQxKc-unsplash-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/kobe-tang-R7Swh8mQxKc-unsplash-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/kobe-tang-R7Swh8mQxKc-unsplash-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/kobe-tang-R7Swh8mQxKc-unsplash-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/kobe-tang-R7Swh8mQxKc-unsplash-2048x1535.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/content\/dam\/ircc\/migration\/ircc\/english\/pdf\/pub\/discover.pdf?utm_source=vancouver%20is%20awesome&amp;utm_campaign=vancouver%20is%20awesome%3A%20outbound&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canadian government<\/a>&nbsp;actually lists two men born in what would become Canada as the inventors of the first electric light bulb, though others were experimenting; they sold their patent to Thomas Edison a few years later as he pushed his company&#8217;s version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edison&#8217;s patent came in 1880, and he began to commercialize the new product. In 1886, the City of Vancouver was officially founded, so light bulbs were a fairly recent invention at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 1914, lights and other uses for electricity meant huge electrical poles were built in Vancouver. They&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vancouverisawesome.com\/history\/photo-check-out-what-vancouvers-power-lines-used-to-look-like-5398322\">do not look safe<\/a>&nbsp;by today&#8217;s standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Canadian government&nbsp;actually lists two men born in what would become Canada as the inventors of the first electric light bulb, though others were experimenting; they sold their patent to Thomas Edison a few years later as he pushed his company&#8217;s version. Edison&#8217;s patent came in 1880, and he began to commercialize the new product. 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