{"id":79353,"date":"2021-09-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79353"},"modified":"2021-08-26T19:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T00:49:34","slug":"the-midway-nothing-here-but-us-hipsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79353","title":{"rendered":"The Midway: Nothing Here But Us Hipsters"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/soccerstadiumdigest.com\/2021\/08\/allianz-field-development-moves-forward\/\">This has to be the most depressing, let them eat cake piece on the &#8220;success of the soccer stadium<\/a>&#8221; that I have ever read. <br>&#8220;There\u2019s been some smaller businesses moving into the stadium area to serve soccer fans, but much more work is needed to boost the area.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Excuse me? To serve the soccer fans? What about those of us who live here. This was a community long before the stadium and the light rail came along to break it up. <br>Nothing is going to be built there for a long time. But, hey, as long as the city keeps dealing out the money, McGuire doesn&#8217;t have to really do anything. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The fabled \u201cmemory hole\u201c is full of narratives that don\u2019t match those of Big Left, locally and nationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: This has to be the most depressing, let them eat cake piece on the &#8220;success of the soccer stadium&#8221; that I have ever read. &#8220;There\u2019s been some smaller businesses moving into the stadium area to serve soccer fans, but much more work is needed to boost the area.&#8221; Excuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79353","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=79353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79354,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79353\/revisions\/79354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}