{"id":923,"date":"2006-10-02T14:35:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T12:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/923"},"modified":"2006-10-02T14:35:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T12:35:52","slug":"i-heart-this-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/923","title":{"rendered":"I heart this town&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to be a bit of a tourist in my own town recently.  I normally have a really hard time with tourists&#8230;they block sidewalks, gape at perfectly normal things (like the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/elifem\/19758161\/\">man painted silver<\/a> on Michigan Avenue), and cut me off in traffic in completely unexpected ways.  Resident Chicagoans are crazy drivers sometimes, but highly predictable.<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAYS&#8230;I am really trying to take advantage of living here for as long as I can.<\/p>\n<p>The train to HELL.  As I like to call it&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/109\/253898110_9d9c250c2c.jpg?v=0\"><\/p>\n<p>oooh shiny&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/111\/253897984_f17bc77513.jpg?v=0\"><\/p>\n<p>Chess= AWESOME (by Millenium Park)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/86\/253897225_56db84e077.jpg?v=0\"><\/p>\n<p>Relief by the river on Michigan Avenue<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/88\/253897747_6c57ae4414.jpg?v=0\"><\/p>\n<p>Lighthouse on Lake Michigan (taken by me on J&#8217;s camera)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/83\/247164812_636f852788.jpg?v=0\"><\/p>\n<p>The Cloud Gate, of course.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/84\/259126959_657af934cc.jpg?v=0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to be a bit of a tourist in my own town recently. I normally have a really hard time with tourists&#8230;they block sidewalks, gape at perfectly normal things (like the man painted silver on Michigan Avenue),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}