{"id":7372,"date":"2021-10-05T07:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2021-10-05T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:20:17","slug":"oregon-tavern-age-friday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/oregon-tavern-age-friday-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Tavern Age: Friday Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7372\" data-postid=\"7372\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7372 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>A Friday afternoon. A new joint. It&#8217;s old, with a roadhouse feel, situated near a defense contractor, and soon, one of the city&#8217;s new official homeless villages. What a strange mix of customers that should facilitate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I walked in and the bartender was sitting at circular bar of tile and glass brick and drinking what appeared to be a cocktail. A friend sat next to her playing on her phone. Old football games played on the monitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dark beer sounded good so I ordered a porter and then sat at a high table and began writing a story about a homeless veteran. My creative mind has attached itself to this homeless issue. I don&#8217;t really know where I am going with it yet. I may never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young Latina woman entered, ordered a long island ice tea, and then hit the slot machines. She left in five minutes. I guess it was some kind of break from work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silence reigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few minutes later, a street-looking man entered and ordered a screwdriver and then hit the slot machines. From time to time, I heard him talking to a machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone emerged from the back and began setting up speakers around the stage. Apparently there was a rock event scheduled for later that night, probably a cover band of some kind. It still somewhat astonishes me that live rock and roll used to be my primary source of entertainment when I lived in Portland a quarter century ago. Rock is utterly irrelevant to me now. I doubt I&#8217;ll ever see a live act again, unless, perhaps I chance upon one in OTA country gigging drunk in the afternoon. That has happened before, a couple of times. I&#8217;d like that. Maybe a Doobies Brothers outfit. Or better yet, an OTA Go Go&#8217;s group. Oh yes, I would like that a lot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Friday afternoon. A new joint. It&#8217;s old, with a roadhouse feel, situated near a defense contractor, and soon, one of the city&#8217;s new official homeless villages. What a strange mix of customers that should facilitate. I walked in and the bartender was sitting at circular bar of tile and glass brick and drinking what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-7372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-oregon-tavern-age","tag-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\/7372","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=7372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7375,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions\/7375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}