A women’s golf tournament in Mexico plays silently on multiple screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No music from the jukebox. Excellent!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OTA men discuss HVAC and jest about all the suckers attending church this Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another OTA man suffering from an assortment of alcohol-abuse maladies sips his gin and tonic. He’s paler by the day. I give him six months to live if he doesn’t quit the sauce. He’s not quitting the sauce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An OTA woman talks to the female OTA bartender about proper footwear for a minimum wage job in America caring for the elderly. The conversation ends and the woman walks her hound Sandy Lou out of the joint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three OTAs play the slots. An OTA man orders a tequila sunrise. I’ve never tasted one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Silence reigns in here. I relish it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Someone could keel over, croak, and no one would notice. The stuffed bobcat mounted on the wall above me exudes more life than the patrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An OTA man walks over to the jukebox and punches in some tunes: heavy metal from the 80s. Jesus, I don’t want that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The semi-regular homeless OTA man, a regular in the joint, weaves past me and says hello<\/em>. He’s loaded. But at least he didn’t walk into the beer cooler, mistaking it for the restroom, like the other day. Christ, he could have frozen to death in there. It would have been a week before anyone noticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A women’s golf tournament in Mexico plays silently on multiple screens. No music from the jukebox. Excellent! OTA men discuss HVAC and jest about all the suckers attending church this Sunday afternoon. Another OTA man suffering from an assortment of alcohol-abuse maladies sips his gin and tonic. He’s paler by the day. I give him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9823","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\/9823","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=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9825,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions\/9825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}