{"id":84004,"date":"2022-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84004"},"modified":"2022-12-05T09:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:09:29","slug":"heavy-handed-metaphor-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84004","title":{"rendered":"Heavy-Handed Metaphor Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A bar and restaurant explicitly aimed at revitalizing Downtown, and at  &#8220;bringing Minneapolis together&#8221;,as a \u201cplace of healing for people&#8221; as one of its owners said, and overturning the image of  downtown Minneapolis as a crime-ridden area enmeshed in a death spiral, has&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;oh, <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/new-restaurant-in-downtown-minneapolis-closing-indefinitely-after-attempting-to-revitalize-area\/?fbclid=IwAR2mN-IFoMIjGPOY9cud2ufc2fRTqmN-Gd-f191ONzLZvFDrXRdxpzrCweE\">do I even need to finish the sentence<\/a>?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84005\" width=\"430\" height=\"434\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, let a thousand lights shine and all.   It takes more gumption to try to open a restaurant downtown than I, for one, have.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But some of this stuff just seems to be the cosmic equivalent of taping a &#8220;kick me&#8221; sign on your back.  The &#8220;Baghdad Bob&#8221;  vibe alone was just tempting Murphy&#8217;s Law&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In March, a bartender at Ties Lounge &amp; Rooftop\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/crime-stalls-resurgence-of-downtown-minneapolis\/\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a>\u00a0Alpha News that downtown Minneapolis is \u201cvery, very safe,\u201d even though the city had released data at the time showing increased thefts, gunshot victims, and assaults in the area compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;even if crime, and downtown&#8217;s eroding status as a destination, didn&#8217;t do it first.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bar and restaurant explicitly aimed at revitalizing Downtown, and at &#8220;bringing Minneapolis together&#8221;,as a \u201cplace of healing for people&#8221; as one of its owners said, and overturning the image of downtown Minneapolis as a crime-ridden area enmeshed in a death spiral, has&#8230; &#8230;oh, do I even need to finish the sentence? I mean, let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,449,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-lets-go-brandon","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84004","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=84004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84007,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84004\/revisions\/84007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}