{"id":510,"date":"2006-09-28T21:40:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T02:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2006-09-28T21:56:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T02:56:27","slug":"roberts-trip-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Robert&#8217;s Journey to the Heart of <i>Muse<\/i>ry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/marquette_bldg.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe stately Marquette Building, home of Carus Publishing until it moves a few blocks away in January.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/marquette_exterior.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe entrance leads into an elevator lobby decorated with bronze images of Midwestern explorers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/marquette_seal.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nEach elevator cab bears this seal and contains speakers that play Mozart. As you may have guessed by now, the Marquette Building is rather full of itself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/muse_shelf.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Muse<\/i>&#8216;s offices are on the fourteenth floor. Among many other treasures there, the archives contain copies of every issue of the magazine. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/rc_cubicle.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the temporary cubicle where I worked on a top-secret project you&#8217;ll see next year. To the left of the keyboard sits a copy of the very first <i>Muse<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/sam_john_walter.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nSamantha Sordyl (a.k.a. Samablamablous, a.k.a. Samblam, a.k.a. Sam) confers with art director John Sandford and layout guru Walter Mendoza about the November\/December issue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/sam_and_mr_sam.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nOne night Sam and her husband, Mr. Sam, took me to a great Italian restaurant in their neighborhood.\n<\/div>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the story, or as much of it as I&#8217;m allowed to talk about at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-September, one of your Administrators spent a week hatching mischief at the <i>Muse<\/i> offices in Chicago. He took pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}