{"id":5121,"date":"2017-06-12T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:37:14","slug":"chicago-deep-dish-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5121","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Deep Dish Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in the Chicago area we wanted to go to a pizza place and get a Chicago-style deep dish pizza. \u00a0We found a neighborhood place in an area called Falco&#8217;s Pizza in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago. \u00a0Falco&#8217;s had a Cubs game going on the TVs and several guys were there to watch the game. \u00a0It has a pool table and some young people were there playing pool. \u00a0It&#8217;s small and not at all touristy which is what we wanted.<\/p>\n<p>We ordered a medium (14&#8243;) pan pizza with mushrooms, onions and olives on it. \u00a0We waited for about 40 minutes for the pizza and we were starting to wonder what was going on. \u00a0Then it arrived!<\/p>\n<p>Oh man, it was HUGE! \u00a0It was about 2&#8243; deep and the edges even deeper. \u00a0It was LOADED with cheese, I said it must have 10 pounds of cheese on it and I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s too far off the base. \u00a0It was REALLY delicious but we could only eat one slice each. \u00a0The rest had to go in a box and that box was really heavy!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be eating pizza for several days I think! \u00a0Here&#8217;s a picture of it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chicago-style-deep-dish-pizza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chicago-style-deep-dish-pizza-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chicago-style-deep-dish-pizza-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chicago-style-deep-dish-pizza.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in the Chicago area we wanted to go to a pizza place and get a Chicago-style deep dish pizza. \u00a0We found a neighborhood place in an area called Falco&#8217;s Pizza in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago. \u00a0Falco&#8217;s had a Cubs game going on the TVs and several guys were there to watch the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chicago Deep Dish Pizza<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-132-chicago-area-il"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5123,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}