{"id":77154,"date":"2021-03-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77154"},"modified":"2021-03-11T06:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T12:49:41","slug":"while-making-your-weekend-plans-and-voting-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77154","title":{"rendered":"While Making Your Weekend Plans &#8211; And Voting Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s been a while \u2013 but my band, \u201cElephant in the Room\u201d, is back in business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a year where we had precisely two, somewhat surreptitious gigs, we&#8217;re back in an actual bar, for the first time since February 29, 2020.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a couple years of playing in the far northwest and far eastern suburbs, onSaturday night, we will be going north, playing at the Back To The SRO Bar and Grill                                                              in Oak Grove.   It&#8217;s about 10 miles north of Anoka:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d19815.09814019872!2d-93.35060063774883!3d45.30788568861682!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x52b316dbb040daef%3A0x7dc7192a198c0f8d!2sBack%20to%20the%20SRO%20Bar%20%26%20Grill!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1615466843971!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what the Covid rules are, other than the fact that we are playing from six until 10 rather than our usual nine until one \u2013 which isn\u2019t entirely unwelcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway \u2013 I\u2019ve been there before, the food is pretty good, and the food and beverage prices have that \u201cedge of the metro\u201c not-so-priciness about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way \u2013 enjoy live music while you can. Because while on the one hand states are slowly reopening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/pro-act-would-upend-u-s-labor-laws-for-9399248\/?fbclid=IwAR0FHvat2tXkgXNoVbjQmWUxYMRC2g-YWDA-NaTcnZdt82L-1-mvvVwPOYE\">the Biden administration is doing its best to destroy the \u201cgig\u201c economy<\/a>. And there is literally nothing giggier than playing in a bar band.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while \u2013 but my band, \u201cElephant in the Room\u201d, is back in business. After a year where we had precisely two, somewhat surreptitious gigs, we&#8217;re back in an actual bar, for the first time since February 29, 2020. After a couple years of playing in the far northwest and far eastern suburbs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[404],"class_list":["post-77154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","category-music","tag-elephant-in-the-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77154","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=77154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77156,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77154\/revisions\/77156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}