{"id":2944,"date":"2017-08-25T02:35:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2017-08-25T02:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T01:35:24","slug":"on-navy-pier-surrounded-by-chicageau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"On Navy Pier, Surrounded By Chicageau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of <i>really <\/i>big statues North of the river.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1425721506.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-208 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-482286836.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-207 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1222780632.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-206 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>No idea who the other guy is, and it only now occurred to me t go and see whether there&#8217;s a plaque, but the vibe I&#8217;m getting is &#8220;Dude, I can actually see the rabbit in that hat; You are a terrible magician.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-965070633.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-209 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>Some more wandering, in the direction of Navy Pier, took me to an urban beach.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to line up some sort of panning shot where I start in sub-tropical island paradise, and end in Chicago, but I couldn&#8217;t make it work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-644414688.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-210 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>I was, however, pretty happy with this line-up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-830710954.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-211 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>And this garden on Navy Pier, with the water-jet fountains, is really quite relaxing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-839033979.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-213 alignnone size-full\"><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s about it.<br \/>\nOne day I&#8217;ll remember that, immediately after a big event like Gen Con, I really don&#8217;t feel like going to do tourist stuff; I&#8217;m more into chillaxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of really big statues North of the river. No idea who the other guy is, and it only now occurred to me t go and see whether there&#8217;s a plaque, but the vibe I&#8217;m getting is &#8220;Dude, I can actually see the rabbit in that hat; You are a terrible magician.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday-2017"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-Lu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}