{"id":456,"date":"2010-07-15T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T23:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2010-07-15T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T23:14:55","slug":"chicago-the-windy-city-from-wendis-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/chicago-the-windy-city-from-wendis-point-of-view","title":{"rendered":"Chicago &#8211; The Windy City from Wendi&#8217;s Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, my mom and I went to Chicago and met up with my friend and fellow photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoportraitphotographer.blogspot.com\/\">Patrick Warnecka<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/shootkit.blogspot.com\/\">creator of the ShootKit<\/a>. It was so much fun, exploring downtown and seeing some of the artwork.  I love sculptures and the Art Institute is one of my favorite Chicago destinations, but I&#8217;ve never gotten a chance to explore the areas around it before.  I have loads of images, so will probably break this up into a couple of posts!<\/p>\n<p>Well, we changed that!  Mom and I hopped on the El and came out right at State and VanBuren, and found ourselves eye-to-eye with Tony Tasset&#8217;s incredible new sculpture Eye.  We met up with Patrick and had a lot of fun shooting around it!<\/p>\n<p>Me!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4114\/4796604337_ca20de3324.jpg\" alt=\"Wendi Riggens\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My mom and Patrick and Eye<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4123\/4796604295_8b7d3df1e1.jpg\" alt=\"Mom, Patrick Warnecka, Chicago, Eye\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4093\/4797232606_48289daa96.jpg\" alt=\"Eye by Tony Tasset\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4143\/4796604481_038e54c418.jpg\" alt=\"Eye, Chicago, Tony Tasset\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4077\/4796604413_bf9101472e.jpg\" alt=\"Eye, Chicago, Tony Tasset, Mom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4141\/4796604703_f498e481a0.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago, Eye, Tony Tasset\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mom and Me<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4122\/4797232472_a5c1d95156.jpg\" alt=\"Mom, Chicago, Wendi, Eye\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check back tomorrow for more images from downtown Chicago!<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?c=online-pharmacy-cefaclor\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pp-fb-like-btn-wrap\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/chicago-the-windy-city-from-wendis-point-of-view\" data-share=\"true\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"\" data-action=\"like\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, my mom and I went to Chicago and met up with my friend and fellow photographer Patrick Warnecka, creator of the ShootKit. It was so much fun, exploring downtown and seeing some of the artwork. I love sculptures and the Art Institute is one of my favorite Chicago destinations, but I&#8217;ve never gotten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-destinations","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}