{"id":1317,"date":"2006-08-23T20:59:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2006-08-23T20:59:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T20:59:52","slug":"the_other_side_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side Of The River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new high-rise condominium development is going up on the block adjacent to my workplace, The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepenfield.com\/home.asp\">sales website<\/a> promises &#8220;five-star amenities&#8221; and generally makes the building sound like the closest thing to a yuppified heaven on Earth.&nbsp; I like the notion of a thirty-second commute to work, but any inclination I had to make a serious inquiry about the availability of units was quickly disspelled when I realized one thing with jarring clarity&#8211;I would have to live in downtown St. Paul.&nbsp; The last time I found myself in downtown St. Paul at night, I nearly died from a sense of unbearable loneliness.&nbsp; A bramble of tumbleweed drifted through an intersection as my desperate cries for human companionship echoed among the deserted office buildings.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Now, I certainly intend no offense to my many friends who call St. Paul home.&nbsp; Many areas of the city are quite lovely.&nbsp; However, I think I&#8217;ll remain a Minneapolitan for the time being and admire your fair environs from afar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new high-rise condominium development is going up on the block adjacent to my workplace, The sales website promises &#8220;five-star amenities&#8221; and generally makes the building sound like the closest thing to a yuppified heaven on Earth.&nbsp; I like the notion of a thirty-second commute to work, but any inclination I had to make a <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1317' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-1317","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-lf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","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=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}