{"id":28963,"date":"2012-07-13T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28963"},"modified":"2012-07-13T09:11:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T14:11:23","slug":"28963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28963","title":{"rendered":"I Said &#8220;Son, Take A Good Look Around&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After fighting against a full-court regulatory press by the City of Saint Paul for months and months, yet another entrepreneur &#8211; from that hive of business-friendliness, MInne-freaking-apolis &#8211; has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_21054410\/cupcake-store-owner-ends-st-paul-bid-switches\">opted to cut his losses.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The City fought them long enough, they gave up and went away. Thank Thune we kept that Bad business off Grand Avenue. Now there\u2019s room for a Good business, something that sells hand-dipped candles, maybe. Or maybe mystic crystals and wind chimes. To pedestrians or bicyclists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Joe has too much faith. \u00a0In most parts of St. Paul, it&#8217;d be some kind of city-funded non-profit. \u00a0But on Grand Avenue, it&#8217;ll be a chain. \u00a0No, not a plebeian chain like Chipotle; not a local chain like Pineda. \u00a0No, it&#8217;ll be some national, fashionably-PC, high-end place like Patagonia, with the self-righteous cachet to overcome most of the objections and the money to beat the rest.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That\u2019s what this City needs more of, good businesses like that.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, we can take our train to Minneapolis for cupcakes!<\/p>\n<p>In a couple of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After fighting against a full-court regulatory press by the City of Saint Paul for months and months, yet another entrepreneur &#8211; from that hive of business-friendliness, MInne-freaking-apolis &#8211; has opted to cut his losses. Joe Doakes writes: The City fought them long enough, they gave up and went away. Thank Thune we kept that Bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963","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=28963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28966,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963\/revisions\/28966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}