{"id":20373,"date":"2016-02-16T06:29:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20373"},"modified":"2016-02-16T06:29:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:29:45","slug":"marlboro-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/02\/16\/marlboro-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlboro Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Marlboro Country\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/24422529343\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1571\/24422529343_669a951f16_c.jpg?resize=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Marlboro Country\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>The Market-Frankford El had made an unscheduled stop along the rails due to one of those mysterious and omnipresent signal problems. Fortunately this delay afforded me the opportunity to shoot the three-dimensional cigarette sign I had always admired as the train sped by. 61st and Market, <em>ladies and gentlemen<\/em>, in beautiful <strong>West Philadelphia!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Market-Frankford El had made an unscheduled stop along the rails due to one of those mysterious and omnipresent signal problems. Fortunately this delay afforded me the opportunity to shoot the three-dimensional cigarette sign I had always admired as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/02\/16\/marlboro-country\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,104],"tags":[1214,1211,1697,1755,5,3825,354,3669,79,1622,480],"class_list":["post-20373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-commuting","category-philadelphia","tag-cigarette-advertising","tag-cigarettes","tag-commute","tag-elevated","tag-joe-williams","tag-marlboro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-septa","tag-train","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5iB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9762,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/09\/15\/market-frankford-el-headed-for-frankford\/","url_meta":{"origin":20373,"position":0},"title":"Market-Frankford El Headed for Frankford","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I timed this shot just right. I saw the train coming around the bend, so I put my camera on a 10 second timer and hoped for the best. Lucky shot. 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