{"id":4171,"date":"2013-11-12T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2013-11-12T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T18:59:00","slug":"tallest-title-taken-out-of-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/tallest-title-taken-out-of-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tallest&#8221; title taken out of Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4172\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/searstowerfromhancock.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/searstowerfromhancock.jpg 640w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/searstowerfromhancock-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><em><strong>June 12, 2011:<\/strong> The Trump Tower, left, and Sears Tower, right, as seen from the observation floor of the John Hancock Building. Yes, I still call it the Sears Tower. So there.<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a goosing of the rules, and calling a glorified antenna a spire, New York&#8217;s new One World Trade Center will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/chi-tallest-building-20131112,0,7298761.story\">considered the tallest building<\/a> in the United States\/Western Hemisphere when it is completed. (The CN Tower is the world&#8217;s tallest &#8220;freestanding structure&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time Chicago&#8217;s Sears\/Willis Tower has lost its title on a technicality. The Petronas Towers usurped the overall &#8220;world&#8217;s tallest&#8221; when its spires were included. However, the Sears Tower\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_the_world\">retained the title of &#8220;highest occupied floor&#8221;<\/a> until the Burj Khalifa was finished in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, I think the new building constructed in New York should&#8217;ve been called 3 World Trade, leaving 1 and 2 for the towers destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001. (The old complex also had buildings 3 through 7 but not of the same height.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 12, 2011: The Trump Tower, left, and Sears Tower, right, as seen from the observation floor of the John Hancock Building. Yes, I still call it the Sears Tower. So there. Thanks to a goosing of the rules, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/tallest-title-taken-out-of-chicago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4173,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}