{"id":3981,"date":"2022-07-12T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:21:00","slug":"hello-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/hello-cleveland\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Hello Cleveland<\/em>\u00a0unlocks the hidden, larger-than life history and culture of Cleveland, Ohio, possibly the country&#8217;s most misunderstood city. Locals, visitors, transplants, and people\u2014who moved away as soon as they could\u2014will gain a well-rounded picture of the city&#8217;s\u00a0passionate pursuits, dark corners, dubious claims to fame, and disarmingly friendly culture. Nick Perry, who grew up in Cleveland and then moved back as an adult, invites you to join him in taking\u00a0a loving, brutally honest look under the hood. Develop an appreciation for\u00a0local celebrities like Devo, Bone Thugs &amp; Harmony, Lil&#8217; John and Big Chuck, and Dick Goddard the weather guy.\u00a0Marvel at\u00a0landmarks like the Great Lakes, the Metroparks, and the world&#8217;s largest outdoor chandelier. There are plenty of downsides and none are sugarcoated. You&#8217;ll discover why Cleveland is the reason for the creation of the Environmental Protection Act and how\u00a0it&#8217;s largely to blame for the widespread adoption of suburban city planning. But you can still\u00a0find a heartwarming pride in rooting for sports teams that seem cursed to lose every championship. As the city&#8217;s unofficial slogan says, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be tough,&#8221; but there&#8217;s a lot\u00a0to love\u2014especially when the world-famous Cleveland Orchestra wanders into the dive bar you&#8217;re sitting in and starts to play an impromptu concert.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Cleveland\u00a0unlocks the hidden, larger-than life history and culture of Cleveland, Ohio, possibly the country&#8217;s most misunderstood city. Locals, visitors, transplants, and people\u2014who moved away as soon as they could\u2014will gain a well-rounded picture of the city&#8217;s\u00a0passionate pursuits, dark corners, dubious claims to fame, and disarmingly friendly culture. Nick Perry, who grew up in Cleveland&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/hello-cleveland\/\" title=\"Read Hello Cleveland\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-now"],"my_excerpt":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Hello Cleveland<\/em>\u00a0unlocks the hidden, larger-than life history and culture of Cleveland, Ohio, possibly the country's most misunderstood city. Locals, visitors, transplants, and people\u2014who moved away as soon as they could\u2014will gain a well-rounded picture of the city's\u00a0passionate pursuits, dark corners, dubious claims to fame, and disarmingly friendly culture. Nick Perry, who grew up in Cleveland and then moved back as an adult, invites you to join him in taking\u00a0a loving, brutally honest look under the hood. Develop an appreciation for\u00a0local celebrities like Devo, Bone Thugs &amp; Harmony, Lil' John and Big Chuck, and Dick Goddard the weather guy.\u00a0Marvel at\u00a0landmarks like the Great Lakes, the Metroparks, and the world's largest outdoor chandelier. There are plenty of downsides and none are sugarcoated. You'll discover why Cleveland is the reason for the creation of the Environmental Protection Act and how\u00a0it's largely to blame for the widespread adoption of suburban city planning. But you can still\u00a0find a heartwarming pride in rooting for sports teams that seem cursed to lose every championship. As the city's unofficial slogan says, \"You've got to be tough,\" but there's a lot\u00a0to love\u2014especially when the world-famous Cleveland Orchestra wanders into the dive bar you're sitting in and starts to play an impromptu concert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n<p><em>Hello Cleveland<\/em>\u00a0unlocks the hidden, larger-than life history and culture of Cleveland, Ohio, possibly the country&#8217;s most misunderstood city. Locals, visitors, transplants, and people\u2014who moved away as soon as they could\u2014will gain a well-rounded picture of the city&#8217;s\u00a0passionate pursuits, dark corners, dubious claims to fame, and disarmingly friendly culture. Nick Perry, who grew up in Cleveland and then moved back as an adult, invites you to join him in taking\u00a0a loving, brutally honest look under the hood. Develop an appreciation for\u00a0local celebrities like Devo, Bone Thugs &amp; Harmony, Lil&#8217; John and Big Chuck, and Dick Goddard the weather guy.\u00a0Marvel at\u00a0landmarks like the Great Lakes, the Metroparks, and the world&#8217;s largest outdoor chandelier. There are plenty of downsides and none are sugarcoated. You&#8217;ll discover why Cleveland is the reason for the creation of the Environmental Protection Act and how\u00a0it&#8217;s largely to blame for the widespread adoption of suburban city planning. But you can still\u00a0find a heartwarming pride in rooting for sports teams that seem cursed to lose every championship. As the city&#8217;s unofficial slogan says, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be tough,&#8221; but there&#8217;s a lot\u00a0to love\u2014especially when the world-famous Cleveland Orchestra wanders into the dive bar you&#8217;re sitting in and starts to play an impromptu concert.\u00a0<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}