{"id":8903,"date":"2021-04-04T19:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T02:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=8903"},"modified":"2021-04-11T16:57:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T23:57:27","slug":"big-gman-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2021\/04\/04\/big-gman-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Big G(Man) 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Henry &amp; I kicked off our epic road trip by flying to Chicago, then meeting my folks in Rockford. (The Clock Tower Inn is long gone, but the O&#8217;Hare shuttle lives forever. &#x1f60c;) Hen of course made a beeline to set up Uncle Ted&#8217;s old Farm Country, Lionel train, and Matchbox collections, and the two of us enjoyed browsing antique stores and knocking back some Canova&#8217;s Classic pizza as well as Grandma Nack&#8217;s famous pork chops &amp; rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A special highlight was getting to see Uncle Ted &amp; his kids. I accompanied him on the tail end of his morning milk run, getting to help wash down the truck before swinging by Weber&#8217;s Meats and scoring some cheese curds. Afterwards he picked up Jenna, Austin, and Morgan so that they join us for some epic train times plus hide-and-seek with Henry. &#8220;The cousins are so great,&#8221; he says. &#8220;They&#8217;re a disappearing breed of kid that&#8217;s not all about video games!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/iMgzDH5yELN4AmrY7\">Check out our gallery<\/a> from the days&#8217; adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"789\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BigG-1024x789.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8904\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BigG.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2021\/04\/04\/big-gman-2021\/bigg\/\" class=\"wp-image-8904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BigG-1024x789.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BigG-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BigG-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BigG.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry &amp; I kicked off our epic road trip by flying to Chicago, then meeting my folks in Rockford. (The Clock Tower Inn is long gone, but the O&#8217;Hare shuttle lives forever. &#x1f60c;) Hen of course made a beeline to set up Uncle Ted&#8217;s old Farm Country, Lionel train, and Matchbox collections, and the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-route-66"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8903"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8911,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903\/revisions\/8911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}