{"id":2668,"date":"2011-04-06T15:20:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T20:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2011-04-06T15:20:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T20:20:50","slug":"its-obscura-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=2668","title":{"rendered":"Coming Up: Obscura Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/21628465?color=ffffff\" width=\"440\" height=\"242\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/\">Atlas Obscura<\/a> is the &#8220;compendium of the world&#8217;s wonders, curiosities and esoterica.&#8221; It&#8217;s a great directory chock-full of the weirdest and most wonderful places in the world. And this Friday there will be Obscura Day events hosted all over the world to celebrate this particular flavor of oddness. Chicago has <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/united-states\/illinois\/chicago\">a panoply of quirky destinations,<\/a> but only a couple of destinations hosting Obscura Day events Friday. <\/p>\n<h1>Chicago&#8217;s choices:<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Obscura1-440x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Obscura1\" width=\"440\" height=\"176\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Obscura1-440x176.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Obscura1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/br><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/place\/international-museum-surgical-science\">Museum of Surgical Science<\/a><br \/>\nIn honor of Obscura Day, the Museum\u2019s curator will present 3D stereoscopic photos, chromolithographs, and a magic lantern show depicting skin diseases in gorgeous, gruesome detail.<\/p>\n<h1>OR<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Obscura2-440x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Obscura2\" width=\"440\" height=\"176\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Obscura2-440x176.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Obscura2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/br><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/place\/busy-beaver-button-co\">Busy Beaver Button Museum<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThe tour will highlight important buttons throughout history and offer a behind the scenes look of our button archives.<\/p>\n<p>It comes down to either and evening of awesome, gross-out, 100 year old science or, you know, buttons. Even if I don&#8217;t make it to either of these I&#8217;m glad to have the list <em>I&#8217;m happy to credit my web-savvy mom with this tip.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlas Obscura is the &#8220;compendium of the world&#8217;s wonders, curiosities and esoterica.&#8221; It&#8217;s a great directory chock-full of the weirdest and most wonderful places in the world. And this Friday there will be Obscura Day events hosted all over the world to celebrate this particular flavor of oddness. Chicago has a panoply of quirky&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,15],"tags":[289,269,10],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-video","tag-atlas-obscura","tag-chicago","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}