{"id":2827,"date":"2011-06-04T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2011-06-04T20:29:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T01:29:27","slug":"stores-for-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=2827","title":{"rendered":"Stores for Spies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCF5379.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2830\" title=\"DSCF5379\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCF5379-620x348.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCF5379-620x348.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCF5379-440x247.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCF5379.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCF5382.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2828\" title=\"Detective Services\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCF5382-440x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCF5382-440x247.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCF5382-620x348.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCF5382.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s impossible to miss this gem at the intersection of Western and Fullerton. Behind the buzzing neon window display a particle board wall bristles with security cameras for sale. To make them look more high tech, they&#8217;re all back lit with blue LED light, the most high tech color of all. Above the shop there may be an office that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/TheMalteseFalcon1.png\">looks like this.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s important not to confuse this store with the world famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notasecretagentstore.com\/\">Boring Store,<\/a> a little further south on Milwaukee Avenue. The Boring Store is a great novelty shop and a heck of a lot more fun than the paranoid and creepy Spy Store. And though I may be killed for blowing their cover, I&#8217;ll write it anyway, the Boring Store is a front for a really cool writing and tutoring program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.826chi.org\/\">866Chi.<\/a> One of several big city storefront writing workshops started by author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/authorpages\/eggers\/eggers.html\">Dave Eggers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>end transmission&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s impossible to miss this gem at the intersection of Western and Fullerton. Behind the buzzing neon window display a particle board wall bristles with security cameras for sale. To make them look more high tech, they&#8217;re all back lit with blue LED light, the most high tech color of all. Above the shop there&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,6],"tags":[269,10,303],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-photo-journal","tag-chicago","tag-links","tag-spies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","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=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}