{"id":21187,"date":"2016-10-21T05:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T09:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21187"},"modified":"2016-10-21T05:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T09:25:50","slug":"glorious-relic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/21\/glorious-relic\/","title":{"rendered":"Glorious Relic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Philip's Restaurant\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/29593182913\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/9\/8278\/29593182913_822cde5c64_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Philip's Restaurant\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Another glorious neon relic from a bygone era sadly in need of restoration, but I don&#8217;t think there is the money, interest or will. A beautiful job was done on the <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/01\/10\/back-in-the-saddle-again\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Boot and Saddle<\/em> <\/a>sign just up the street, but I fear that Philip&#8217;s sign will further wither and decay. I hope I&#8217;m wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another glorious neon relic from a bygone era sadly in need of restoration, but I don&#8217;t think there is the money, interest or will. A beautiful job was done on the Boot and Saddle sign just up the street, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/21\/glorious-relic\/\">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":[104],"tags":[1137,2412,106,354,3669,2734,1527,2843,480,336],"class_list":["post-21187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia","tag-broad-street","tag-decay","tag-neon","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philips-restaurant","tag-rust","tag-south-philadelphia","tag-usa","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5vJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12174,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/07\/22\/boot-saddle-bar\/","url_meta":{"origin":21187,"position":0},"title":"Boot &#038; Saddle Bar","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"July 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a shot from a while back before the iconic Boot and Saddle sign on South Broad Street was restored. 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