{"id":85447,"date":"2023-06-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85447"},"modified":"2023-06-28T06:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T11:05:15","slug":"solved-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85447","title":{"rendered":"Solved!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The simultaneous human tsunamis of Pride and two nights of Taylor Swift <em>saved downtown Minneapolis<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of about 50 Twin Cities media stories to that effect &#8211; almost as if they were written in advance:<\/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\">In post-Taylor Swift, post-Pride glow, proponents say downtown Minneapolis has turned a corner <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ssr3Uh9SfR\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ssr3Uh9SfR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LkbnffnXFq\">pic.twitter.com\/LkbnffnXFq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WCCO | CBS News Minnesota (@WCCO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCCO\/status\/1673481787693989890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the obvious economic benefit of having half a million people wandering about with purpose, big crowds (that aren&#8217;t there to riot, anyway) are generally pretty safe from most violent and property crime.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the solution is clear.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Downtown Council needs to make Taylor Swift the house band at USBank Stadium, and turn Hennepin from 10th to Loring Park into a new &#8220;PrideLand&#8221; theme park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simple as. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The simultaneous human tsunamis of Pride and two nights of Taylor Swift saved downtown Minneapolis! Here&#8217;s one of about 50 Twin Cities media stories to that effect &#8211; almost as if they were written in advance: Besides the obvious economic benefit of having half a million people wandering about with purpose, big crowds (that aren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85447","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=85447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85452,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85447\/revisions\/85452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}