{"id":134,"date":"2006-09-11T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/11\/chicago-trip-first-night-in-town\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T12:46:09","slug":"chicago-trip-first-night-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/11\/chicago-trip-first-night-in-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Trip &#8211; First Night in Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an awesome time we had in Chicago!<\/p>\n<p>We flew in on Monday afternoon. Our first adventure was to get from Midway to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homewoodsuiteschicago.com\/\">hotel <\/a>using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitchicago.com\/maps\/systemmaps.html\">public transportation<\/a>. I&#8217;m always fascinated by public transit because it&#8217;s never a decent option whereever I live. It was also much cheaper to take the train than a cab. Unfortunately, we ended up arriving in the city at rush hour so the trains got very busy and it was difficult to navigate our luggage, but we made it!<\/p>\n<p>Our first night out we wandered around until we found <a href=\"http:\/\/centerstage.net\/restaurants\/jake-melnicks.html\">Jake Melnick&#8217;s<\/a> and had our first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gooseisland.com\/AgePage.asp?URLPage=\/index.asp\">local pint<\/a>. After a few pints there, we went off in search of something scrumptious. We found it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heavenonseven.com\/\">Heaven on Seven<\/a>, a cajun restaurant near our hotel. I got the chef&#8217;s choice, a four-course meal designed by the chef. I was already full from our beers so I couldn&#8217;t even think about picking out dinner from their vast menu. The chef&#8217;s choice was perfect and everthing they brought me, except for the turtle soup, I loved!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an awesome time we had in Chicago! We flew in on Monday afternoon. Our first adventure was to get from Midway to the hotel using public transportation. I&#8217;m always fascinated by public transit because it&#8217;s never a decent option whereever I live. It was also much cheaper to take the train than a cab. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}