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[To view the entire Flickr photoset from this trip, go here.<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wendy, Willis, Matt and I piled in Matt’s car and rushed the hell out of town on Thursday after work. We didn’t get on the road til almost 7, but we had nothing to do but get to Chicago that night.<\/p>\n

At one point, Matt had to decelerate from 72mph because he was so caffeinated he was seeing through time. We got to the hotel around 2am, and jumped into bed as quickly as we could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[To view the entire Flickr photoset from this trip, go here.] Wendy, Willis, Matt and I piled in Matt’s car and rushed the hell out of town on Thursday after work. We didn’t get on the road til almost 7, but we had nothing to do but get to Chicago that night. At one point, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24],"tags":[51,52,29],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"geo":{"latitude":41.87811279999999669598764739930629730224609375,"longitude":-87.629798899999997274790075607597827911376953125,"description":"Chicago, IL, USA"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/storage\/2007\/08\/1030010536_5f14b31560_o.jpg?fit=1620%2C1215","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Z5R-1R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":116,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/baseball-roadtrip\/friday-832007-chicago\/","url_meta":{"origin":115,"position":0},"title":"My First Visit to Wrigley Field","author":"Jenni","date":"08.6.2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We got up Friday morning and searched in the phonebook for the nearest Dunkin' Donuts, because what you've heard about their coffee is true. 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