{"id":87152,"date":"2024-03-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87152"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:08:19","slug":"precisely-as-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87152","title":{"rendered":"Precisely As Predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Go ahead, tear down a couple of stores that were half of the commercial heart of the Midway&#8221;, said all the people who don&#8217;t live in the Midway.  &#8220;It&#8217;ll bring hordes of soccer fans in from their &#8220;Urban Life Theme Park&#8221; homes in Marcy Holmes and Longfellow over to pre-game at the local bars, and carouse about the place afterward!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Trust us<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I warned &#8217;em.  I sincerely tried. <\/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\">St. Paul\u2019s Midway neighborhood still waiting for renaissance around Allianz Field <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fdnpg7V7WA\">https:\/\/t.co\/Fdnpg7V7WA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1766833943456669922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The game day ritual:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Watch hordes of cars (and a quick surge of people on the train) pack Snelling, Hamline and University, and the neighborhood streets all the way up to Minnehaha, clogging everything for a solid hour. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A couple of hours of noise and pandemonium and hearing the mob singing &#8220;Wonderwall&#8221;.  By the way, of all the songs they could have picked, why in the flaming hootie-hoo did it have to be &#8220;Wonderwall?&#8221;    I swear, &#8220;Afternoon Delight&#8221; or &#8220;Pilot of the Airwaves&#8221; or &#8220;Who Let the Dogs Out&#8221; or a root canal are less irritating. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another hour or two of clogged streets and pedestrians stagging through the neighborhood as they get while the getting&#8217;s good.  Because nobody wants to be stuck on University outside of a crowd.  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>One will spend less time waiting for Godot than for the wave of prosperity that professional soccer was supposed to bring to the Midway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Go ahead, tear down a couple of stores that were half of the commercial heart of the Midway&#8221;, said all the people who don&#8217;t live in the Midway. &#8220;It&#8217;ll bring hordes of soccer fans in from their &#8220;Urban Life Theme Park&#8221; homes in Marcy Holmes and Longfellow over to pre-game at the local bars, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87152","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=87152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87153,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87152\/revisions\/87153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}