{"id":1824,"date":"2018-10-22T01:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T01:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2018-10-22T01:25:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T01:25:34","slug":"candy-colored-neon-bar-speakeasy-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"Candy-Colored Neon Bodega Speakeasy Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1822\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1823\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong2.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mahjong2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There must be some trick.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Urban life can\u2019t quite be this happy. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There are three candy-colored glow-zones.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Pink walls light the space.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A demarcated zone glows in yellow from a bar fridge; from the side, a lavender color cloud.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A bar is supposed to be at this very address.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>From the street, through the window we see two smart women at the counter framed by light.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Are they fronts for candy, mass-market Chinese snacks? <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Their mood makeup, so neat and surface-perfect, gives them away.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They give it up &#8211; behind a red door is a \u201csecret cocktail bar,&#8221; Mahjong Bar in Toronto.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Everyone has a front.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It may be artificial, but at least it glows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There must be some trick.\u00a0 Urban life can\u2019t quite be this happy. \u00a0 There are three candy-colored glow-zones.\u00a0 Pink walls light the space.\u00a0 A demarcated zone glows in yellow from a bar fridge; from the side, a lavender color cloud.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1824\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[774,772,775,773,511],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodega","tag-mahjong-bar","tag-monkey-shoulder","tag-speakeasy","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-tq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}