{"id":51202,"date":"2023-03-17T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T23:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=51202"},"modified":"2023-03-17T16:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T23:20:05","slug":"in-chicago-its-not-the-old-torch-song-cry-me-a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/17\/in-chicago-its-not-the-old-torch-song-cry-me-a-river\/","title":{"rendered":"In Chicago, It&#8217;s Not the Old Torch Song &#8220;Cry Me a River&#8221; &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>DYE<\/strong><\/span> me a river &#8230; in celebration of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Chicago_River_Green_St-Patricks_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Chicago_River_Green_St-Patricks_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Chicago_River_Green_St-Patricks_1-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Chicago_River_Green_St-Patricks_1-150x83.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And yes, the dye is safe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cThe dye used is a food grade dye also used in medicine \u2026 Illinois EPA found that at the concentration used in the Chicago River, it is completely non-toxic.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenmatters.com\/p\/what-is-chicago-river-dyed-with\">What Is the Chicago River Dyed With? Behind the Annual Tradition (greenmatters.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s enjoy a time-lapse of the process:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/St-Patricks-Day_Chicago-River_C.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s DYE me a river &#8230; in celebration of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day! &nbsp; And yes, the dye is safe: \u201cThe dye used is a food grade dye also used in medicine \u2026 Illinois EPA found that at the concentration used in the Chicago River, it is completely non-toxic.\u201d\u00a0 What Is the Chicago River Dyed With? <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/17\/in-chicago-its-not-the-old-torch-song-cry-me-a-river\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5350,5348,5351,5349],"class_list":["post-51202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-chicago-river","tag-erin-go-bragh","tag-green-dye","tag-st-patricks-day","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}