{"id":65,"date":"2008-08-08T18:30:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T17:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-08-07T12:35:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T11:35:03","slug":"chicago-from-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2008\/08\/chicago-from-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago from the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_64\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/93853038_53699fe085.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64\" title=\"chicago\" src=\"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/93853038_53699fe085-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/93853038_53699fe085-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/93853038_53699fe085.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">from flickr: caribb<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chicago looks great from the air. Miles of tiny suburbs and then suddenly a short burst of skyscrapers and then Lake Michigan to the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>The building height here is kind of like a Black Swan. The average height is probably just above normal house height, which tells you nothing. It doesn&#8217;t describe the suburbs and it leaves you completely unprepared for downtown.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean? Beware of averages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago looks great from the air. Miles of tiny suburbs and then suddenly a short burst of skyscrapers and then Lake Michigan to the horizon. The building height here is kind of like a Black Swan. The average height is probably just above normal house height, which tells you nothing. It doesn&#8217;t describe the suburbs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[78,66,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}