{"id":25391,"date":"2019-05-31T07:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=25391"},"modified":"2019-05-31T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:42:49","slug":"happy-birthday-walt-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/05\/31\/happy-birthday-walt-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bizarre<\/a>We at Willceau Illo News<\/em> celebrate the 200th anniversary of poet Walt Whitman’s<\/em> birth with one of the stranger sculptures dedicated to the man. This bizarre Zardoz<\/em><\/a>\/Planet of the Apes<\/em><\/a> head of Whitman adorns the entrance\u00a0of the Whitman Shopping Plaza<\/em> in South Philadelphia.<\/em> Old Walt’s got a few statues around town and a bridge named after him, but this is the weirdest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We at Willceau Illo News celebrate the 200th anniversary of poet Walt Whitman’s birth with one of the stranger sculptures dedicated to the man. This bizarre Zardoz\/Planet of the Apes head of Whitman adorns the entrance\u00a0of the Whitman Shopping Plaza … Continue reading →<\/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":[4079,4,104,3809],"tags":[4690,3669,3257,3342,4689],"class_list":["post-25391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looking-south","category-news","category-philadelphia","category-south-philly-safari","tag-lawgiver","tag-philadelphia","tag-planet-of-the-apes","tag-walt-whitman","tag-zardoz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6Bx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5780,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/30\/great-expectations-whitman-sampler\/","url_meta":{"origin":25391,"position":0},"title":"Great Expectations of a Whitman Sampler","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"December 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another advertisement from the program\/souvenir booklet for the play L'Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901. 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