{"id":4319,"date":"2012-12-23T07:47:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2013-01-01T23:12:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:12:53","slug":"ride-of-the-lights-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2012\/12\/23\/ride-of-the-lights-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride of the Lights Brigade!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to say that the will-they won&#8217;t-they saga of our trying to ride Chicago&#8217;s Holiday Lights El Train ended in success last night!<\/p>\n<p>Our friend Samantha had told us about the train a couple of months ago, and ever since then we were hoping we could catch it with the guys. It runs only on certain days, and the CTA doesn&#8217;t publish the exact times it runs until a few days ahead of time. We&#8217;d hoped to catch the train after our visit to the Murrays yesterday, but Henry got sick &#038; we had to leave early. We thought our plans might be toast, but fortunately within a couple of hours he recuperated enough that we could drive to a different station &#038; try again. We were all set to catch the 6:32 train (the last one of the night!), but then trains came &#038; went with no sign of it. We were just about to give up hope when a nice family appeared alongside us &#038; said that the train was running half an hour late. Thus we held our ground, and you can see the results below. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cgUCtD455oU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to say that the will-they won&#8217;t-they saga of our trying to ride Chicago&#8217;s Holiday Lights El Train ended in success last night! Our friend Samantha had told us about the train a couple of months ago, and ever since then we were hoping we could catch it with the guys. It runs only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4338,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}