{"id":6509,"date":"2012-05-15T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6509"},"modified":"2012-05-15T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:58:08","slug":"postcard-from-chicago-by-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6509","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from Chicago &#8211; By The Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I should write at least one postcard sitting by the Lake, well, here I am doing just that.\u00a0 Ironic that the Sea of Galilee looks so lake-like but Lake Michigan, so like the sea.\u00a0 Its impossibly blue, turquoise, sometimes even green waters stretch to the horizon.\u00a0 The morning sun makes a bright shimmering patch from here to forever.\u00a0 Sounds serene and it would be but for the rush hour traffic streaming up Lake Shore Drive not twenty feet behind me and scores of cyclists and runners zipping by on the bike path before me.\u00a0 A half dozen retrievers and their masters enjoy fetching and throwing sticks out of and into the Lake.\u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling the right-side of my face heat up from walking and now sitting north.\u00a0 Time to head back south and fetch some coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I should write at least one postcard sitting by the Lake, well, here I am doing just that.\u00a0 Ironic that the Sea of Galilee looks so lake-like but Lake Michigan, so like the sea.\u00a0 Its impossibly blue, turquoise, sometimes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1012],"tags":[1031,1032,1024],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6514,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions\/6514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}