{"id":62409,"date":"2017-03-13T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62409"},"modified":"2017-03-12T22:52:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T03:52:30","slug":"minnesotas-bornholmer-strasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62409","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota&#8217;s Bornholmer Strasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In East Germany in 1991, all it took was one border guard commander to jump the queue and completely short-circuit his communist leaders&#8217; plans to keep communism alive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Die \u00d6ffnung der Mauer in Berlin, Bornholmer Strasse, 1989\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3bN9ZRj3NBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just one cop, opening one gate, and half a century of oppression deflated like a Vikings winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>In Minnesota, we&#8217;re not nearly that dramatic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Surdyk-Ad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62410 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Surdyk-Ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"527\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jim Surdyk, owner of Surdyk&#8217;s Liquor in Minneapolis, decided to open yesterday &#8211; four months before Minnesota&#8217;s Blue Laws are formally repealed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17264811_10154488706675642_1306389635404864306_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62411 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17264811_10154488706675642_1306389635404864306_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"263\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city of Minneapolis will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/surdyk-s-is-open-this-sunday-well-ahead-of-official-change-to-liquor-law\/415981344\/#1\">do its darnedest to show them who&#8217;s boss<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In East Germany in 1991, all it took was one border guard commander to jump the queue and completely short-circuit his communist leaders&#8217; plans to keep communism alive. Just one cop, opening one gate, and half a century of oppression deflated like a Vikings winning streak. In Minnesota, we&#8217;re not nearly that dramatic. Jim Surdyk, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62409","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=62409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62412,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62409\/revisions\/62412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}