{"id":354,"date":"2016-11-17T11:44:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T16:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/?p=354"},"modified":"2016-12-13T00:50:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T05:50:53","slug":"placeholder-speakeasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2016\/11\/17\/placeholder-speakeasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakeasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 564px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/564x\/e1\/39\/52\/e1395291480dd54a9d58205c9e813ed0.jpg\" alt=\"If nothing else can describe the failure of Prohibition, just think back to how closely the Roaring Twenties and Speakeasies were tied together.\" width=\"564\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If nothing else can describe the failure of Prohibition, just think back to how closely the Roaring Twenties and Speakeasies were tied together.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Music, dancing, having a good time with friends and strangers alike.  What&#8217;s not to love about a night out on the town, enjoying New York&#8217;s nightlife?  It certainly didn&#8217;t hurt that Speakeasies were the best way to get a drink in a Dry America.  Bars didn&#8217;t just undergo a name change with the 18th amendment however, most bars and saloons were drained dry.  More than a few stashed away their alcohol though, and when the initial storm of keg-smashing and bottle-draining subsided, they set up in basements and back rooms.  Some even had clever mechanical systems that had shelves and taps on pulleys, so if a police squad rolled by the Speakeasy just became a quaint cigar lounge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music, dancing, having a good time with friends and strangers alike. What&#8217;s not to love about a night out on the town, enjoying New York&#8217;s nightlife? It certainly didn&#8217;t hurt that Speakeasies were the best way to get a drink in a Dry America. Bars didn&#8217;t just undergo a name change with the 18th amendment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[88,87,92,89],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prohibition-era-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-prohibition","tag-speakeasy","tag-temperance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}