{"id":6138,"date":"2020-06-17T07:06:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2020-06-17T07:07:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:07:01","slug":"oregon-tavern-age-trick-or-pimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/oregon-tavern-age-trick-or-pimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Tavern Age: Trick or Pimp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>I presently believe I do not possess the literary powers to describe accurately the madness unfolding in front of me inside Oregon Tavern Age (OTA) country. But I will try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A gaunt, elderly meth woman wearing jean shorts and a halter top is playing a Wonder Woman slot machine with savage ferocity while drinking a vodka and cranberry juice. At the same time, she is screaming at no one in particular about the liberal hoax that is the Corona Virus and other assorted conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sampling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf Trump isn&#8217;t wearing a mask, there is a cure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy husband died of the flu and they didn&#8217;t call out the National Guard for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think she might be a prostitute of some kind. I also think her trick or pimp is in here. He&#8217;s sitting far away, at a table. He&#8217;s older, wearing pleated shorts and a dress shirt. He sports greased short gray hair and glasses. He&#8217;s on his fifth or sixth greyhound and playing terrible 80s music through his phone and a speaker shaped like a spike heeled shoe that is resting on the table. I can hear the music over the slots, television and fan. I am desperately wishing someone would smash the speaker to smithereens and I could get back to writing my erotica story about a suspension bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait! An OTA regular just told the trick or pimp to turn off the speaker. He did!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hooker left Wonder Woman, pounded her drink, and went up to the trick or pimp and they left!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to LITERATURE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I presently believe I do not possess the literary powers to describe accurately the madness unfolding in front of me inside Oregon Tavern Age (OTA) country. But I will try. A gaunt, elderly meth woman wearing jean shorts and a halter top is playing a Wonder Woman slot machine with savage ferocity while drinking a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-oregon-tavern-age","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}