{"id":4358,"date":"2009-03-09T08:11:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2009-03-09T10:57:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T15:57:31","slug":"minneapolis-dfl-all-fun-must-be-crushed-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4358","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis DFL:  All Fun Must Be Crushed &#8211; For The People!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most pleasant diversions the Twin Cities offer in the summer is a night out on the back patio at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keeganspub.com\">Keegans<\/a> in the summer, playing trivia and torching up the odd cigar.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;see, while Minneapolis and then Minnesota banned smoking in bars, establishments that had outdoor space were able to have smoking patios &#8211; sort of like those miserable outside-the-office smoking areas, only with tables and chairsand waitresses and booze.<\/p>\n<p>And when Minneapolis sees opportunities for the people to have fun that is not strictly regulated, it gets jealous.<\/p>\n<p>According to Terry Keegan, the Met Council is driving the various city agencies to try to consider cigar patios as <em>expansions to the bar<\/em>, meaning they&#8217;d get charged full square-footage fees.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an absurd interpretation, of course; the cigar patios are where people <em>inside the bar<\/em> go to grab a cigar and sit.\u00a0 This is a baldfaced attempt to squeeze money out of bar owners, themselves caught in a double-whammy of tough economic times and times that were already straitened by Minnesota&#8217;s smoking ban, as well as continue the DFL&#8217;s attempt to regulate behavior.<\/p>\n<p>So what <em>is <\/em>it going to take to get people to storm the barricades (rhetorically speaking, at least)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most pleasant diversions the Twin Cities offer in the summer is a night out on the back patio at Keegans in the summer, playing trivia and torching up the odd cigar. Y&#8217;see, while Minneapolis and then Minnesota banned smoking in bars, establishments that had outdoor space were able to have smoking patios [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","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=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}