{"id":2199,"date":"2017-05-14T14:09:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T18:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2017-05-14T14:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T18:42:51","slug":"birthday-in-chigaaaaaaaaaago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2017\/birthday-in-chigaaaaaaaaaago\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday in Chigaaaaaaaaaago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course I don’t talk about my birthday!  No one my age would be so foolish.   But this one was too good, I can’t help myself!<\/p>\n

Watching Guy King play the blues at Buddy Guy<\/a> was smooth and delicious, Cara and I agreed his happiness was outright contagious.<\/p>\n

On Saturday we flew kites in the famous Chicago lakefront wind, with hundreds of others on Cricket Hill<\/a>.  Epic!<\/p>\n

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And on Sunday we ripped it up from downtown out to Northerly Island<\/a> on the world’s most freewheeling Segway tour ever – our host was so cool and chill, the day was beautiful, and we covered miles jumping curbs and banking through fast turns.  Whoo!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Thanks baby for the best weekend ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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