{"id":7811,"date":"2010-01-14T08:07:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7811"},"modified":"2010-01-13T21:12:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T02:12:34","slug":"do-my-eyes-deceive-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7811","title":{"rendered":"Do My Eyes Deceive Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, Wilebski&#8217;s &#8220;Blues Saloon&#8221; was the cornerstone of the local blues scene.\u00a0 The tumbledown second-story tavern at Thomas and Western in Saint Paul was a stop on the regional blues circuit, and hosted one of the better open-stage nights in town every Monday.<\/p>\n<p>And then, like most good things in the world of bars, it came to an end.\u00a0 The club went through a number of identities; a couple of wan attempts at wan R&#8217;nB bars, with a shot at a gay bar in the middle somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>But I was riding by on the 67 bus the other day, and saw the banners on the sides of the building: &#8220;Wilebski&#8217;s Blues Saloon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be looking for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, Wilebski&#8217;s &#8220;Blues Saloon&#8221; was the cornerstone of the local blues scene.\u00a0 The tumbledown second-story tavern at Thomas and Western in Saint Paul was a stop on the regional blues circuit, and hosted one of the better open-stage nights in town every Monday. And then, like most good things in the world of bars, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811","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=7811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7813,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions\/7813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}