{"id":22320,"date":"2017-05-31T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=22320"},"modified":"2017-05-31T06:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T10:00:32","slug":"roaring-high-above-15th-chestnut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/05\/31\/roaring-high-above-15th-chestnut\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaring High Above 15th &#038; Chestnut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Roaring at 15th &amp; Chestnut\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/34145894913\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4246\/34145894913_a02e7b62e9_z.jpg?resize=640%2C507&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Roaring at 15th &amp; Chestnut\" width=\"640\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I was headed to a newly opened art supply store in what is known as Center City in Philadelphia when I happened to look up. Fortunately the lighting was good, and I had my compact camera with the terrific zoom lens, and I shot this fellow several stories up from the street. Fortunately this building hasn&#8217;t fallen under the heels of the <em>&#8220;march of progress&#8221;<\/em> as many others have only to be replaced by tall, mirrored, utterly uninteresting shapes. A lot of those types of buildings are sprouting up like metallic weeds. They may be interesting to a viewer from an airplane seat, but they are really boring to the pedestrian wandering below. Fortunately Philly still has some gems like the building above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was headed to a newly opened art supply store in what is known as Center City in Philadelphia when I happened to look up. Fortunately the lighting was good, and I had my compact camera with the terrific zoom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/05\/31\/roaring-high-above-15th-chestnut\/\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,104,2093],"tags":[4153,5,4154,354,3669,118,4155,1005,336],"class_list":["post-22320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","tag-arcitecture","tag-joe-williams","tag-lion","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-photography","tag-roar","tag-sculpture","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5O0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17708,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/11\/21\/the-teeth-that-bite\/","url_meta":{"origin":22320,"position":0},"title":"The Teeth That Bite","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"November 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Somewhere along the subway lines in Philadelphia, PA. 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