{"id":669,"date":"2008-06-21T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T23:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=669"},"modified":"2018-11-16T01:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T20:42:25","slug":"summer-solstice-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/summer-solstice-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer solstice, in Chicago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/art_institute.jpg\" alt=\"art_institute.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/art_institute_chicago.jpg\" alt=\"art_institute_chicago.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/georges_seurat_-_un_dimanche_apres-midi_a_lile_de_la_grande_jatte.jpg\" alt=\"georges_seurat_-_un_dimanche_apres-midi_a_lile_de_la_grande_jatte.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/nighthawks_hopper.jpg\" alt=\"nighthawks_hopper.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/ev_van_gogh.jpg\" alt=\"ev_van_gogh.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/olive_park.jpg\" alt=\"olive_park.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Chicago, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ev and I are spending the weekend in Chicago, in advance of my speaking at <a href=\"https:\/\/fitc.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><em>FITC&#8217;s Design &amp; Technology Event<\/em><\/a> here. Today\u2019s highlights: a lengthy visit to the Art Institute (even though much of the main gallery is under construction, and a sizable portion of the permanent collection is on tour); an incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solstice\" target=\"_blank\">solstice<\/a> evening at Olive Park beach on Lakeshore Drive (Lake Michigan).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Art: Anish Kapoor\u2019s<\/em> Cloud Gate <em>(110 tons of polished stainless steel); Jaume Plensa\u2019s <\/em>Crown Fountain<em>; <\/em>Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte<em> by Georges-Pierre Seurat; <\/em>Nighthawks<em> by Edward Hopper; where did Van Gogh go?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, Illinois Ev and I are spending the weekend in Chicago, in advance of my speaking at FITC&#8217;s Design &amp; Technology Event here. Today\u2019s highlights: a lengthy visit to the Art Institute (even though much of the main gallery is under construction, and a sizable portion of the permanent collection is on tour); an incredible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,6,7,8,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16873,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/16873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}