{"id":12981,"date":"2016-11-30T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12981"},"modified":"2016-11-28T13:44:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T21:44:58","slug":"25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/11\/30\/25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: November 30, 2016 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nexus-2-7-COVER-FOR-WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12984\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nexus-2-7-COVER-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"nexus-2-7-cover-for-web\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nexus-2-7-COVER-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nexus-2-7-COVER-FOR-WEB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nexus-2-7-COVER-FOR-WEB-180x131.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><b>Interesting culinary twist: <\/b>The ongoing saga of dishes going missing from the Lansdowne cafeteria 25 years ago\u2014which ended with the caf bringing back disposable dishware\u2014wasn\u2019t just because of students taking the plastic dishes, it turns out. In our November 25, 1991 issue, Camosun Food Services Advisory Committee chairperson Beryl Hastings said that he \u201cfrequently saw Beaver Foods\u2019 dishes in staff rooms.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not just students,\u201d Hastings told us. \u201cIt\u2019s staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Wise words for 2016: <\/b>If, after scrolling through your Facebook news feed, you\u2019re feeling like everyone is hysterical these days, well, yeah, it\u2019s true. But it was true back in 1991 as well, prompting our writer Gavin Andrews to note in his editorial in this issue that if everyone could tone back their over-the-top opinions for a minute and if people were willing to \u201cmeet halfway, feet on firm ground,\u201d things could be going a lot smoother. It\u2019s not too late to heed Andrews\u2019 sage advice, you know\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>Why doesn\u2019t anyone use these anymore?: <\/b>The classifieds section of any old newspaper is a very good way to get a read on the pulse of the times. For example, in this issue: \u201cSuper single waveless waterbed. Wood frame. $100 firm or will trade for daybed.\u201d I don\u2019t even know what a daybed is, but I do like being reminded every now and then that waterbeds used to be a thing that people actually slept on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting culinary twist: The ongoing saga of dishes going missing from the Lansdowne cafeteria 25 years ago\u2014which ended with the caf bringing back disposable dishware\u2014wasn\u2019t just because of students taking the plastic dishes, it turns out. In our November 25, 1991 issue, Camosun Food Services Advisory Committee chairperson Beryl Hastings said that he \u201cfrequently saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-november-30-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12987,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981\/revisions\/12987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}