{"id":8053,"date":"2016-11-11T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8053"},"modified":"2016-11-10T00:02:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T06:02:31","slug":"chicagomg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/chicagomg\/","title":{"rendered":"chicagomg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8054\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cubspapers.jpg\" width=\"740\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cubspapers.jpg 740w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cubspapers-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over this decade, I have typically ended up driving through the Chicago area in one trip a year, usually hewing close to I-80. This year, however, I had set myself up to do it twice in a week \u2014 a week that included the biggest &#8220;black swan&#8221; event in the history of U.S. pro sports. It was&#8230;it was something.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8055\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/chilakeskyline.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/chilakeskyline.jpg 675w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/chilakeskyline-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><em><strong>November 4, 2016:<\/strong> The view on the Chicago River from the Lake Michigan side as the sun sets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But after being caught in the hundreds of thousands of fans in Cubbie blue on Friday afternoon and the slow crawl of traffic on Saturday, there&#8217;s still no place like home. (Find your one- or 1 1\/2-stoplight town and give it a good long traffic-free kiss.) My fill of the big city has been sated for a while, especially since this particular helping had a cherry on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over this decade, I have typically ended up driving through the Chicago area in one trip a year, usually hewing close to I-80. This year, however, I had set myself up to do it twice in a week \u2014 a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/chicagomg\/\">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-8053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053","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=8053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions\/8056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}