{"id":1058,"date":"2005-12-09T22:51:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T22:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2005-12-09T22:51:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T22:51:02","slug":"dining_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"Dining Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the loveliest and most charming restaurants in Minneapolis is the Loring Pasta Bar<\/a> in Dinkytown. I don’t eat much when I go out, but I love sitting in the Loring’s dining room, which is wreathed with twinkling white lights and plants that seem to be climbing the high walls. It’s kind of like walking into a nighttime forest. I hung out there with a friend tonight and went there for my date last week. Both times, I was complimented on my choice of location. It’s near the University, so it can’t afford to assume to become overly pretentious. And the food is great without being too expensive. I’m a sucker for ambiance. I think the Loring is now my default choice for first dates and intimate conversations with friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the loveliest and most charming restaurants in Minneapolis is the Loring Pasta Bar in Dinkytown. I don’t eat much when I go out, but I love sitting in the Loring’s dining room, which is wreathed with twinkling white lights and plants that seem to be climbing the high walls. It’s kind of like […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-h4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}