{"id":39306,"date":"2022-10-16T09:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=39306"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:11:45","slug":"marconi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/10\/16\/marconi\/","title":{"rendered":"Marconi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Marconi\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52431829019\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52431829019_ab27fc34ec_c.jpg?resize=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Marconi\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Marconi Plaza in South Philadelphia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marconi Plaza in South Philadelphia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_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":[4079,104,3809],"tags":[5473,3669,3006],"class_list":["post-39306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looking-south","category-philadelphia","category-south-philly-safari","tag-marconi","tag-philadelphia","tag-statue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1ed1x-marconi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39231,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/10\/10\/columbus-day-parade-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":39306,"position":0},"title":"Columbus Day Parade 2022","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"October 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday was The Columbus Day Parade on South Broad Street. 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