{"id":82857,"date":"2022-07-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82857"},"modified":"2022-07-19T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T12:10:12","slug":"dilemma-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82857","title":{"rendered":"Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the one hand, I try not to spend much money in MInneapolis.  And riding the Vomit Comet, or taking my car, downtown isn&#8217;t something I do lightly anymore.  Of course, I don&#8217;t like to reward First Avenue for their demented vaccine policies or having soaked up a bunch of transfers of taxpayer money to <em>them <\/em>during the pandemic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while some of the best memories of my life took place in that building, the staff and management don&#8217;t much care about that, or them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand:<\/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\">Twin Cities Twitter calls out First Avenue for booking a last-minute, surprise Dave Chappelle performance.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xaZ3UsP6Xa\">https:\/\/t.co\/xaZ3UsP6Xa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ross Raihala (Alpha Male) \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@RossRaihala) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RossRaihala\/status\/1549169404256161793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a part of me that wants to reward them, in some small way, for packing the gear to offend the alphabet people, <em>while in downtown Minneapolis<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decisions, decisions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, I try not to spend much money in MInneapolis. And riding the Vomit Comet, or taking my car, downtown isn&#8217;t something I do lightly anymore. Of course, I don&#8217;t like to reward First Avenue for their demented vaccine policies or having soaked up a bunch of transfers of taxpayer money to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82857","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=82857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82858,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82857\/revisions\/82858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}