{"id":80750,"date":"2022-01-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80750"},"modified":"2022-02-06T08:29:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:29:18","slug":"welcome-to-potemkins-im-chimera-ill-be-your-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80750","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Welcome To Potemkin&#8217;s!  I&#8217;m Chimera, I&#8217;ll Be Your Server&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ll meet Mayor Frey halfway.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s supposed to be Minneapolis&#8217;s top cheerleader.  It&#8217;s <em>part of his job <\/em>to blow smoke up the world&#8217;s collective nethers about the city.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when he went on social media after about a week of his bizarrely illogical and unscientific vaccine mandate to say everything was hunky dory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First Friday with the new vax\/testing policy is in the books &amp; my phone has been flooded with pictures of full tables. Once again MPLS is leading the way through a trying time, showing we care about the health and safety of our neighbors while supporting the restaurants we love. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ckoDdBbnI\">pic.twitter.com\/6ckoDdBbnI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mayor Jacob Frey (@MayorFrey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorFrey\/status\/1484924414663839752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;it wasn&#8217;t in and of itself a surprise.  Cheerleading the city, and their own policies even moreso, is part of a mayor&#8217;s job description. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the stats aren&#8217;t nearly as sanguine.  Minneapolis table reservation via &#8220;Open Table&#8221; are off by&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;ahem&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8230;two thirds:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"507\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2479.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80749\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2479.png 507w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2479-262x300.png 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s entirely possible the Mayor&#8217;s phone <em>is <\/em>flooded with photos of full restaurants.  The number of choices in Minneapolis has plummeted.  Literally, every place in Minneapolis where I used to do social events has disappeared in the past 20 months.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll meet Mayor Frey halfway. He&#8217;s supposed to be Minneapolis&#8217;s top cheerleader. It&#8217;s part of his job to blow smoke up the world&#8217;s collective nethers about the city. 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