{"id":52024,"date":"2015-03-16T06:37:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T11:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52024"},"modified":"2015-03-16T06:37:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T11:37:32","slug":"inconceivable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52024","title":{"rendered":"Inconceivable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks away from the city minimum wage to $15 an hour, Seattle <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysurge.com\/2015\/03\/restaurants-close-doors-after-seattle-hikes-minimum-wage\/\">restaurants are dropping<\/a> like, well, flies in soup. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, minimum wage hike advocates are claiming it&#8217;s all just part of the normal attrition \u2013 ignoring the fact that the closings are running ahead of the normal rate of closures.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s reminiscent of 2005, when Minneapolis passed it&#8217;s smoking ban in bars and restaurants.  There was a surge in bar closings \u2013 as patrons drove to bars in the suburbs, where until the state wide ban a few years later, you could still smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Apologists for the ban said &#8220;bars close all the time!&#8221;   Which is true. But conversations with bar owner after bar owner after bar owner who had just Tridar their establishments almost inevitably included the phrase:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The smoking ban was the final straw.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hospitality is a tough business. In Seattle, it just got a lot tougher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks away from the city minimum wage to $15 an hour, Seattle restaurants are dropping like, well, flies in soup. Of course, minimum wage hike advocates are claiming it&#8217;s all just part of the normal attrition \u2013 ignoring the fact that the closings are running ahead of the normal rate of closures. It&#8217;s reminiscent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52024","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=52024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52040,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52024\/revisions\/52040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}