{"id":8860,"date":"2014-08-25T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T02:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2014-08-25T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T02:13:28","slug":"day-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=8860","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER DAY OF SURPRISES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit is full of treasures. Some of them will not survive the transformation that is taking place in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Stopping for gas in Jackson MI, imagine the surprise when I could not pull up to the pump because the way was blocked by a group of Sand Hill Cranes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8866\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/fox-theatre-8-25-14-27694.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8866\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/fox-theatre-8-25-14-27694-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"FOX THEATRE\" width=\"558\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/fox-theatre-8-25-14-27694-681x1024.jpg 681w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/fox-theatre-8-25-14-27694-199x300.jpg 199w, 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class=\"wp-caption-text\">FISHER BUILDING<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8864\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cadillac-pano-8-25-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8864\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cadillac-pano-8-25-14-1024x589.jpg\" alt=\"CADILLAC BUILDING\" width=\"558\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cadillac-pano-8-25-14-1024x589.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cadillac-pano-8-25-14-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CADILLAC BUILDING<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8863\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jackson-8-25-14-27394.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8863\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jackson-8-25-14-27394-655x1024.jpg\" alt=\"KNOCKING AT THE DOOR\" width=\"558\" height=\"872\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jackson-8-25-14-27394-655x1024.jpg 655w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jackson-8-25-14-27394.jpg 1213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KNOCKING AT THE DOOR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8862\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jackson-8-25-14-27410.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8862\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jackson-8-25-14-27410-836x1024.jpg\" alt=\"BLOCKING THE GAS PUMP\" width=\"558\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jackson-8-25-14-27410-836x1024.jpg 836w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jackson-8-25-14-27410-245x300.jpg 245w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jackson-8-25-14-27410.jpg 1626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BLOCKING THE GAS PUMP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8861\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jackson-8-25-14-27416.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large 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Some of them will not survive the transformation that is taking place in the city. Stopping for gas in Jackson MI, imagine the surprise when I could not pull up to the pump because the way was blocked by a group of Sand Hill Cranes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2100],"tags":[2102,2679,2101],"class_list":["post-8860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michigan","tag-detroit","tag-michigan","tag-sand-hill-cranes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8870,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions\/8870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}