{"id":1772,"date":"2014-08-23T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2014-08-23T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:24:31","slug":"the-windy-city-of-big-shoulders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-windy-city-of-big-shoulders\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windy City of Big Shoulders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">They call us the Windy City What for, yes we know, you know<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The politicians play smoke and mirrors<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Second City because,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I guess, NYC is where it&#8217;s at.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And now a new name has popped up\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Not even worth my pen&#8217;s strike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They use it to describe what they think happens here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">That&#8217;s far from reality in the grand scheme of things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They call us the City of Big Shoulders, for what precise reason, I know not<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">My only guess is because we look out for each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Come here look for yourself<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We are Chicago\u2014six words not one\u2014The Windy City of Big Shoulders<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">~.%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They call us the Windy City What for, yes we know, you know The politicians play smoke and mirrors The Second City because, I guess, NYC is where it&#8217;s at. And now a new name has popped up\u2014 Not even worth my pen&#8217;s strike. They&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}