{"id":6458,"date":"2010-04-24T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2010-04-24T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T14:01:14","slug":"sterick-building-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/sterick-building-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterick Building WTF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night I went to the Beale Street East End grand re-opening party.\u00a0 I took a few pics of The Rooster, the W.C. Handy House, etc. and I happened to catch the tall buildings of Downtown in the background.\u00a0 As I examined one of them, I noticed something odd hanging off the Sterick Building&#8217;s flag pole.\u00a0 &#8220;That isn&#8217;t a flag,&#8221; I thought.\u00a0 &#8220;Unless it got tangled up somehow.&#8221;\u00a0 I decided to aim my 10x zoom lens at the Sterick and get a closer shot.\u00a0 Look what I found (click the pic to zoom in for larger image):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sterick_wtf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6459\" title=\"sterick_wtf\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sterick_wtf.jpg?resize=500%2C427\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sterick_wtf.jpg?resize=500%2C427 500w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sterick_wtf.jpg?resize=300%2C256 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sterick_wtf.jpg?w=796 796w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WTF&#8230; is that a body?\u00a0 Did a midget piss off the wrong person and get made an example of?\u00a0 Can&#8217;t tell.\u00a0 The pic was taken from 5 blocks away, so that was as close as I could zoom.\u00a0 Since I live near the Sterick, I&#8217;ll try to walk by there today and get a better look at whatever that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night I went to the Beale Street East End grand re-opening party.\u00a0 I took a few pics of The Rooster, the W.C. Handy House, etc. and I happened to catch the tall buildings of Downtown in the background.\u00a0 As I examined one of them, I noticed something odd hanging off the Sterick Building&#8217;s flag &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/sterick-building-wtf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sterick Building WTF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6461,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->