{"id":77652,"date":"2021-04-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77652"},"modified":"2021-04-27T07:16:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T12:16:11","slug":"77652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77652","title":{"rendered":"The Duration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <\/p><p>This just has me laughing. It will be interesting to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2021\/04\/26\/snarshall-starbucks-shuts-drive-through-lanes-after-workers-object-to-police-presence\/\">who wins here<\/a>.  <br>Before the police department was uncool, white urbanists applauded police presence at this Starbucks because they periodically would show up in the bike lane and felt like the police kept them safe.<br>Now the woke white &#8220;queer&#8221; employees think their customers, who this article notes are majority Black, might be uncomfortable with the police presence, even though the customers have continued to show up daily to get their morning coffee. <br>St Paul desperately needs businesses to stick around, so how will the current anti-cop, anti-car council react? (Rhetorical question- we know they&#8217;ll stand with the employees-they think the city can prosper on rental units and non-profits alone).<br>Starbucks will probably be the winner, because they can easily fire their employees, moved to a suburban location, and they&#8217;ll still have business. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><p>I wonder how far people in St. Paul need to be pushed, before some sort of backlash happens.<\/p><p><\/p><p>The answer, so far, seems to be \u201cthat is a barrel that has no bottom to scrape \u201c.  <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: This just has me laughing. It will be interesting to see who wins here. Before the police department was uncool, white urbanists applauded police presence at this Starbucks because they periodically would show up in the bike lane and felt like the police kept them safe.Now the woke white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77652","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=77652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77654,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77652\/revisions\/77654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}