{"id":4660,"date":"2003-09-20T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-20T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/triple-take-2\/"},"modified":"2003-09-20T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-20T13:01:00","slug":"triple-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/triple-take-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/www.doesthislookinfected.com\/images\/millenium_park.jpg\" alt=\"Millenium Park\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I walked up the Michigan Avenue bridge, bouncing and happy because I&#8217;d just given a dollar to someone who obviously needed it.  I was filled with good karma&#8211;it was shining through my eyes, and maybe I was a little bouncy from listening to Fatboy Slim on my MP3 player, too.  Anyway, in the middle of the bridge I happened to look up and lock eyes with this guy who was tall and cute in a Dolph Lungren sort of way.  The look was intense but neither of us slowed down &#8212; he went south and I went north.  After we passed each other, I waited a heartbeat and turned around &#8212; and he did the same.  Amazing. We both kept walking, south, north. I was almost out of bridge when I turned around a third time &#8212; just as he turned around to find me.  The smile I gave him could&#8217;ve lit up Michigan Avenue for a week.  I waved, he waved back, and then we both disappeared into the evening crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect. I love this city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked up the Michigan Avenue bridge, bouncing and happy because I&#8217;d just given a dollar to someone who obviously needed it. I was filled with good karma&#8211;it was shining through my eyes, and maybe I was a little bouncy from listening to Fatboy Slim on my MP3 player, too. Anyway, in the middle of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}