{"id":327,"date":"2004-06-28T21:36:21","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T21:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2004-06-28T21:36:21","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T21:36:21","slug":"the_grim_drive_around_chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"The Grim Drive Around Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father and I drove, rather started and stopped numerous times last week, as we attempted to navigate our way around Chicago.  We slowed to a stop about 20 miles east of Illinois on I-90, routed around the stalled traffic on a combination of Indiania 912, US 41\/12, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=chicago+skyway&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Chicago Skyway<\/a> (also under construction), State Street, Lake Shore Drive, then finally back to 90&#8230;.   I&#8217;ve never seen it worse than last Thursday.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/traffic\/news\/jun04\/239836.asp\">Larry Sandler discusses the gory details<\/a> of driving around Chicago.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lake-express.com\/\">Lake Express<\/a> is an option&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father and I drove, rather started and stopped numerous times last week, as we attempted to navigate our way around Chicago. We slowed to a stop about 20 miles east of Illinois on I-90, routed around the stalled traffic on a combination of Indiania 912, US 41\/12, the Chicago Skyway (also under construction), State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}