{"id":15087,"date":"2003-04-01T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/01\/meigs-field-razed-2\/"},"modified":"2003-04-01T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-01T17:08:00","slug":"meigs-field-razed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/01\/meigs-field-razed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meigs Field Razed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing possible security threats to Chicago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/31meigs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Daley ordered Meigs Field to be demolished<\/a> last night.  For a time, I was convinced that this was an elaborate April Fool&rsquo;s joke (especially because <a href=\"http:\/\/128.135.188.227\/pri\/icam?func=getimage&amp;name=camera1&amp;zoom=2.0&amp;pan=44.45&amp;tilt=-8.1&amp;scale=0.75&amp;quality=40&amp;brightness=0\" target=\"_blank\">webcams of Meigs Field<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wls\/news\/033103_ns_meigs.html#\" target=\"_blank\">RealVideo movies<\/a> conveniently wouldn&rsquo;t load past my firewall :-p), but the level of effort involving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A63428-2003Mar31.html\" target=\"_blank\">newspapers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc5.com\/news\/2074935\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">tv stations<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.faa.gov\/index.cfm\/apa\/1062?id=1727\" target=\"_blank\">the FAA<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aopa.org\/whatsnew\/newsitems\/2003\/03-1-157x.html\" target=\"_blank\">several aviation organizations<\/a> would truly have been an epic prank.  Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsofmeigs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Friends Of Meigs Field<\/a> for more information and how you can help.  This is truly a sad day if it really occurred; I remember playing <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsofmeigs.org\/html\/Software_Meigs_for_Flight_Simulator.html\" target=\"_blank\">Flight Simulator<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/shots\/gameId,1642\/gameShotId,9063\/\" target=\"_blank\">15 years or so ago<\/a>, and for the longest time Meigs Field was the default (and only) airport to fly out of&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200077875?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing possible security threats to Chicago, Mayor Daley ordered Meigs Field to be demolished last night. For a time, I was convinced that this was an elaborate April Fool&rsquo;s joke (especially because webcams of Meigs Field and RealVideo movies conveniently wouldn&rsquo;t load past my firewall :-p), but the level of effort involving newspapers, tv stations, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/01\/meigs-field-razed-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meigs Field Razed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}