{"id":20698,"date":"2021-03-05T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20698"},"modified":"2021-03-02T11:08:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T19:08:54","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-march-5-2021-web-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/03\/05\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-march-5-2021-web-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: March 5, 2021 web exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nexus-March-4-1996-e1614711865932.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20699 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nexus-March-4-1996-e1614711865932-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nexus-March-4-1996-e1614711865932-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nexus-March-4-1996-e1614711865932.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The name remains the same:<\/strong> The story \u201cCCSS Constitution \u2013 Changing the Rules\u201d in our March 4, 1996 issue talked about how the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) almost became known as something else that year. Writer Jody MacFarland reported on how several changes were being proposed at the CCSS\u2019 upcoming AGM, one of which was a motion to change the organization\u2019s name to the Camosun Students Union. The name change didn\u2019t happen and the CCSS continues working for students to this day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Worm burgers:<\/strong> The cover of this issue promised a story on \u201cworm burgers\u201d inside, but this was 1996, when eating worms was hardly as mainstream as it is today, which is still not all that mainstream, so I figured it wasn\u2019t being literal. But, sure enough, we printed a recipe for worm burgers in this issue, featuring 2 pounds of washed, cleaned and ground earthworms. The final step of the very back-to-basics recipe was \u201cbroil over a driftwood fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now that\u2019s inspiration:<\/strong> The review \u201cAuthor offers little inspiration\u201d was writer Arienne Morrow\u2019s take on playwright and artist John Gray\u2019s recent talk at Milestone\u2019s restaurant downtown. The review went from bitter, talking about Gray\u2019s two books (\u201cThey may even have been good, but since they wouldn\u2019t give me one to read, I can\u2019t tell you about the quality of the wit or the prose.\u201d) to his talk: \u201cJust another Prima Donna with a God complex.\u201d Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name remains the same: The story \u201cCCSS Constitution \u2013 Changing the Rules\u201d in our March 4, 1996 issue talked about how the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) almost became known as something else that year. Writer Jody MacFarland reported on how several changes were being proposed at the CCSS\u2019 upcoming AGM, one of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20699,"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":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20698","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=20698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20700,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20698\/revisions\/20700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}