{"id":1100,"date":"2010-10-18T23:38:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T03:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2010-12-28T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T16:49:54","slug":"logan-square-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/logan-square-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Square Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not exactly breaking news, since it hit the streets October 6, but for the record here’s what I’ve been working on for the last month — a feature on the agonizing bureaucratic odyssey of the shared-use Logan Square Kitchen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have to confess here that when I hit send on the last round of revisions, my cell phone still sizzling from a day spent burning up the City Hall phone tree, I was convinced I had just filed the most boring story ever. Who on earth was going to read this? Zoning geeks? Fiends for the minutiae of the municipal code?<\/p>\n

A day later, perspective gained, I felt better. But, still — judge for yourself.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, this is the story of a small startup business trying to gain its footing in a lousy economy. And not just any old small business, but one whose explicit reason for being is to help other small businesses find their footing as well — and do it in a space designed to best reuse the existing resources of its neighborhood. What could possibly go wrong? Well, when you’re got three city departments all weighing in, you’d be surprised.<\/p>\n

If, after you’re read to the end, you are moved by this tangled tale, you can go to LSK owner Zina Murray’s blog and download a letter<\/a> of support\u00a0to send to Mayor Daley. And stay tuned for updates — I’m planning to follow Murray all the way to the zoning board.<\/p>\n

Fun!\u00a0What ever will I wear?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Zina wins<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not exactly breaking news, since it hit the streets October 6, but for the record here’s what I’ve been working on for the last month — a feature on the agonizing bureaucratic odyssey of the shared-use Logan Square Kitchen. I have to confess here that when I hit send on the last round of revisions, … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,5,1],"tags":[29,230,231],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-food-news","category-personal","category-uncategorized","tag-chicago-reader","tag-logan-square-kitchen","tag-zina-murray"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}