{"id":2103,"date":"2008-02-11T04:47:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T09:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2008-02-11T04:47:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T09:47:06","slug":"hes-got-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"He’s Got A Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first moved to the Twin Cities, I had a few interviews in some of Minneapolis’ older office buildings – the Sexton, the Endicott, the Grain Exchange, among others.\u00a0 I was fascinated; they were like snapshots out of a Sam Spade movie, with pebbled-glass door windows and painted names and offices straight out of film noir<\/em>.\u00a0 I’ve often thought that if Salem Radio came calling, I’d build a studio in one of those old buidings (hello, Pioneer!).\u00a0 Call it “Global Import Export”, maybe.<\/p>\n

While I don’t agree with much I read at the Strib, it’d seem Eric Ringham has been reading some of the same stuff:<\/p>\n

A man ought to have an office in the Grain Exchange. He ought to walk past classy architectural details on his way to work in the morning.<\/p>\n

He ought to hear the sound of his wingtips echoing off the marble as he approaches his office.<\/p>\n

A man ought to wear a suit and a proper hat. He ought to wear Florsheims, not Rockports. If he wants to get comfortable, he can loosen his tie and cock his hat to one side.<\/p>\n

He ought to work for himself. Maybe as a private eye, maybe as a highly paid novelist. He shouldn’t be particular.<\/p>\n

A man ought to have a frosted-glass door with his name etched on it. Maybe the name of his partner, too, if he has one. (When a man’s partner is killed, he’s supposed to do something about it.<\/em> Not that a man should compare himself to Bogart.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK.\u00a0 Maybe he’s reading too <\/em>much of the same stuff.<\/p>\n

But you get the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first moved to the Twin Cities, I had a few interviews in some of Minneapolis’ older office buildings – the Sexton, the Endicott, the Grain Exchange, among others.\u00a0 I was fascinated; they were like snapshots out of a Sam Spade movie, with pebbled-glass door windows and painted names and offices straight out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}