{"id":216,"date":"2008-10-17T22:56:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T02:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=216"},"modified":"2008-10-18T19:53:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T23:53:32","slug":"fulton-market-ghost-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/fulton-market-ghost-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulton Market ghost town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief walk down Fulton Street last night lends anecdotal support to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/dining\/chi-rest-rx-weboct17,0,6244747.story\">Monica Eng&#8217;s story<\/a> today on the city&#8217;s slumping restaurant industry.<\/p>\n<p>Scene: Eight-thirty, Thursday, a brisk autumn evening.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton Lounge: Dead.<\/p>\n<p>Follia: Two tables.<\/p>\n<p>Otom: Three tables.<\/p>\n<p>Moto: Who the hell knows. The windows are opaque, I guess to protect you from the laser. But there sure wasn&#8217;t any traffic outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Publican of course was mobbed. But it&#8217;s been open for, what, seven days? We waited 45 minutes for seats. I hafta go back and write about it, so I&#8217;ll save the details for later. But I will say that, as we sucked down Belgian beers in the corner of the bar and tried to stay out of the way, I was hooked by the minimalist, pale wood, seemingly hand-tooled tap pulls. They are really lovely. I kept wanting to reach up and stroke them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I resisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief walk down Fulton Street last night lends anecdotal support to Monica Eng&#8217;s story today on the city&#8217;s slumping restaurant industry. Scene: Eight-thirty, Thursday, a brisk autumn evening. Fulton Lounge: Dead. Follia: Two tables. Otom: Three tables. Moto: Who the hell knows. The windows are opaque, I guess to protect you from the laser. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/fulton-market-ghost-town\/\">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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}