{"id":8133,"date":"2025-07-22T21:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=8133"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:18:52","slug":"one-small-step-for-man-17000-smaller-steps-for-cherubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/one-small-step-for-man-17000-smaller-steps-for-cherubs\/","title":{"rendered":"One small step for man, 17,000 smaller steps for cherubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before becoming a cherub, Lynn-Clara Tun averaged 5,800 steps a day in Edina, Minnesota. Since coming to Medill this summer, her count has risen to 17,163, peaking at over 26,000 steps at the Fourth of July parade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI wasn\u2019t shocked by the \u2018no wheels\u2019 rule,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I do wish that certain trips were faster. One of the hardest parts is definitely how humid it is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Armed with fitness trackers and curiosity, cherubs traded Uber rides and buses for sneakers and sore calves as walking became their main mode of transportation over four weeks. Many made multiple trips to downtown Evanston every week, voluntary or in pursuit of quotes for articles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA lot of the walks, at least at the beginning, are frantically tracking people down for interviews,\u201d Molly Kurtzer-Ellenbogen of Washington D.C. said. She gradually began to appreciate walking as a revelation. While she used to love taking the metro, she has noticed many \u201clittle quirks\u201d on foot \u2014 all potential ideas for feature stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere\u2019s all these foldable stop signs, which are kind of weird,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was a playground. It was taped off with police tape, which was really creepy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Celine Ge of Shanghai compared the on-foot experience to the popular concept of \u201ccitywalk\u201d back home, where the roadside architecture and little shops become highlights of her trips in search of groceries and restaurants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen I\u2019m walking to the city, I usually don\u2019t notice how long it is,\u201d Michelle Tang, of Shanghai, said, \u201cbecause there\u2019s always stuff that catches your attention. My friends and I observe and talk about all those new things as we walk around.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherubs take to the streets of Evanston step by step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":8361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,341,19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[424],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","category-front-page-city","category-living-in-evanston"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":424,"user_id":222,"is_guest":0,"slug":"zihanguo","display_name":"Zihan Guo","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6e538eeaaf9b117c60e75783558af2261151139a51f313ce5047970a498be8e5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Guo","first_name":"Zihan","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10081,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions\/10081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}