{"id":2288,"date":"2017-09-26T21:03:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T01:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2017-09-26T21:32:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T01:32:20","slug":"chicago-and-perfect-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2017\/chicago-and-perfect-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago and Perfect Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t think they went together did you? They sure as climate change did this weekend. Cara and I biked and walked all over the balmified windy city, doing yoga betwixt the skyscrapers on 100o F astroturf, getting my feet analyzed at Fleet Sports (and Cara&#8217;s new favorite footwear!), to Sweetgreens, through the Chicago Cubs fans exiting on a high (chanting &#8220;USA USA&#8221; suck it Trump), on to pure-lefty palsy-frisbee&#8230; Also: devouring Nepalese food and playing Roblox with Christian, and getting 100% down with Johnny Lang at the House of Blues. Whoo!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wp-image-412949975.jpg?w=656&#038;ssl=1\" data-wpid=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"size-full\" id=\"video-2288-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/VID_20170923_223426.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/VID_20170923_223426.mp4\">https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/VID_20170923_223426.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wp-image-54178976.jpg?w=656&#038;ssl=1\" data-wpid=\"7\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wp-image-922849350.jpg?w=656&#038;ssl=1\" data-wpid=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t think they went together did you? They sure as climate change did this weekend. Cara and I biked and walked all over the balmified windy city, doing yoga betwixt the skyscrapers on 100o F astroturf, getting my feet analyzed at Fleet Sports (and Cara&#8217;s new favorite footwear!), to Sweetgreens, through the Chicago Cubs fans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2017\/chicago-and-perfect-weather\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chicago and Perfect Weather<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,2,172,8,76],"tags":[161,170,169,171],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-my-rowdy-friends","category-daily-life","category-live-shows","category-pc-gaming","category-travel","tag-chicago","tag-house-of-blues","tag-johnny-lang","tag-yoga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-AU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2199,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2017\/birthday-in-chigaaaaaaaaaago\/","url_meta":{"origin":2288,"position":0},"title":"Birthday in Chigaaaaaaaaaago","author":"m","date":"May 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Of course I don't talk about my birthday! \u00a0No one my age would be so foolish. \u00a0 But this one was too good, I can't help myself! 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