{"id":35714,"date":"2021-03-15T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=35714"},"modified":"2021-03-15T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:30:04","slug":"billy-penn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/03\/15\/billy-penn\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Penn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35715\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/03\/15\/billy-penn\/billypennweb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BillyPennweb.jpg?fit=500%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BillyPennweb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BillyPennweb.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BillyPennweb.jpg?fit=500%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35715\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BillyPennweb.jpg?resize=500%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BillyPennweb.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BillyPennweb.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[104,2093],"tags":[1183,2230],"class_list":["post-35714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","tag-chestnut-street","tag-construction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9i2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18008,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/01\/14\/broad-chestnut-%e2%80%a2-the-photo-elective\/","url_meta":{"origin":35714,"position":0},"title":"Broad &#038; Chestnut \u2022 The Photo Elective","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another Photo Elective shot by Tina Garceau. 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