{"id":436,"date":"2016-08-24T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T12:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smitheblog.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2016-08-24T12:36:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T12:36:36","slug":"chicago-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/chicago-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-448 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/smithe.blogs.eprevue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2016\/08\/maureen.jpg\" alt=\"Maureen\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" \/>Maureen Smithe, a buyer for Walter E. Smithe furniture stores has quickly become a style icon in her own right. A fixture in the design rooms at Walter E. Smithe, Maureen&#8217;s buying decisions have come to identify the Smithe brand for a new generation of furniture buyers in Chicago and beyond. Recently, Maureen was asked to contribute to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagolife.net\/\">Chicago Life story on living rooms versus great rooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-444 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/smithe.blogs.eprevue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2016\/08\/the-great-room.jpg\" alt=\"the great room\" width=\"410\" height=\"489\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t be prouder of Maureen and the entire buying and design staff at Walter E. Smithe for their tireless contributions to style, design and Chicago itself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen Smithe, a buyer for Walter E. Smithe furniture stores has quickly become a style icon in her own right. A fixture in the design rooms at Walter E. Smithe, Maureen&#8217;s buying decisions have come to identify the Smithe brand for a new generation of furniture buyers in Chicago and beyond. Recently, Maureen was asked<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/chicago-life\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}