{"id":2233,"date":"2017-08-19T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2017-08-19T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T19:25:18","slug":"chicago-tribune-on-rust-belt-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/chicago-tribune-on-rust-belt-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Tribune on Rust Belt Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3558.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2238 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3558-298x400.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3558\" width=\"298\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3558-298x400.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3558-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3558-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3558.jpg 1524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a>Belt\u2019s latest is \u201cRust Belt Chicago: An Anthology,\u201d a lively grab bag of essays, fiction and poetry that reads at times like who\u2019s who of contemporary Chicago writers\/residents. &#8230; taking on topics as varied as reparations for police violence, the barflies of Pilsen and the \u201cmyth of toughness in Chicago sports.\u201d What emerges is not a tired love letter but a portrait of a city of complex promise, simultaneously part of the Rust Belt and removed. &#8212; Chicago Tribune, August 19, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful just this side of words to Chris Borrelli and the Chicago Tribune for taking the time and care to take what we&#8217;re up to at Belt seriously, and for giving me the space\u00a0to talk about it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/beingthere\/ct-ent-martha-bayne-0819-20170815-story,amp.html\">You can read the whole piece here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belt\u2019s latest is \u201cRust Belt Chicago: An Anthology,\u201d a lively grab bag of essays, fiction and poetry that reads at times like who\u2019s who of contemporary Chicago writers\/residents. &#8230; taking on topics as varied as reparations for police violence, the barflies of Pilsen and the \u201cmyth of toughness in Chicago sports.\u201d What emerges is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/chicago-tribune-on-rust-belt-chicago\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","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=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}