{"id":30042,"date":"2018-09-07T03:44:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T10:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=30042"},"modified":"2018-09-06T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:54:57","slug":"about-the-rosh-hashanah-2018-cover-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2018\/09\/07\/about-the-rosh-hashanah-2018-cover-art\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Rosh Hashanah 2018 cover art"},"content":{"rendered":"

The print edition\u2019s cover photo of the salmon run on Adams River by Leah Ramsay was taken in 2010 at Ts\u00fatswecw Provincial Park, near Kamloops, B.C. Formerly named after conservationist and author Roderick Haig-Brown, the park was renamed Ts\u00fatswecw this past June.<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>Ts\u00fatswecw<\/em> (pronounced choo-chwek) translates to \u201cmany rivers\u201d and the park, established in 1977, encompasses the spawning beds of the sockeye, chinook, coho and pink salmon. Every fourth year is a \u201cdominant\u201d run, with millions of salmon returning \u2013 2010, when this photo was taken, was a dominant year, as is 2018. In honour of the occasion, there is a festival held at the park, called Salute to the Sockeye, which runs this year from Sept. 28 to Oct. 21.<\/p>\n

One of the symbols of Rosh Hashanah is the fish head \u2013 \u201cwe should be the head and not the tail.\u201d There are the themes of creation, rebirth and renewal, as well. In the run, the salmon return from the ocean to their natal stream to spawn, after which most die, their bodies providing nutrients to the vegetation and animals, and the lifecycle begins anew. This all happens in British Columbia from September through November.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing one of the peak years of the Adams River sockeye run had been a desire for many years and it didn\u2019t disappoint,\u201d said Ramsay. \u201cEven non-hardcore nature nerds are impressed \u2013 it is such a huge mass of life all moving to the same goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The print edition\u2019s cover photo of the salmon run on Adams River by Leah Ramsay was taken in 2010 at Ts\u00fatswecw Provincial Park, near Kamloops, B.C. Formerly named after conservationist and author Roderick Haig-Brown, the park was renamed Ts\u00fatswecw this past June. Ts\u00fatswecw (pronounced choo-chwek) translates to \u201cmany rivers\u201d and the park, established in 1977, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781],"tags":[6422,2845,2747,8352],"class_list":["post-30042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","tag-british-columbia","tag-environment","tag-photography","tag-salmon"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}