Early morning on the first day of August, the people came to saunter and to shop. It was the perfect holiday Monday, warm but not too warm, bright, sunny and relaxed. It’s just a few minutes away from our home but every time we tried to get to Jardins St-Léon Gardens in the past few months, it was packed, so we’d put it off for another time. Even though getting up super-early on a holiday is not one of my favourite things, this was a good time and a good place to be.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Early morning on the first day of August, the people came to saunter and to shop. It was the perfect holiday Monday, warm but not too warm, bright, sunny and relaxed. It’s just a few minutes away from our home but every time we tried to get to Jardins St-Léon Gardens in the past few months, it was packed, so we’d put it off for another time. Even though getting up super-early on a holiday is not one of my favourite things, this was a good time and a good place to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":600000994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-600000993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-correspondents","category-east"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"","story_tag":"","byline":"Janine LeGal","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/correspondents\/2022\/08\/17\/the-joy-of-shopping-at-jardins-st-leon-gardens","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The joy of shopping at Jardins St-L\u00e9on Gardens","url":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/correspondents\/2022\/08\/17\/the-joy-of-shopping-at-jardins-st-leon-gardens","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/correspondents\/2022\/08\/17\/the-joy-of-shopping-at-jardins-st-leon-gardens"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/08\/646368_web1_LeGal2-Aug.-17.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/08\/646368_web1_LeGal2-Aug.-17.jpg"},"articleSection":"Community Correspondents","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"laurieb"}],"creator":["laurieb"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Our Communities","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2022-08-17T07:01:07Z","datePublished":"2022-08-17T07:01:07Z","dateModified":"2022-08-17T07:01:07Z"},"rendered":"