{"id":7429,"date":"2011-07-31T23:16:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T06:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2011-08-04T08:38:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T15:38:50","slug":"on-july-31st-2011-neatest-stuff-in-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2011\/07\/31\/on-july-31st-2011-neatest-stuff-in-minneapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"On July 31st, 2011, NEATEST STUFF IN MINNEAPOLIS…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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downtown Minneapolis framed by the new and old Walker Art Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…(the city where I grew up but never lived as an adult, though with frequent trips back I am slowly discovering what’s here) is becoming clear this afternoon as I realize that my recent regular treasured hang-outs\u00a0which I would have been super delighted to find in Rome, or Los Angeles, or New York City – Yoga One<\/a> (the welcoming non-corporate, non-profit community yoga center that even has plants and skylights in the studio), Ecopolitan<\/a> (super raw cleansing vegan food served in the warm woody parlor of a typical old Lyndale Avenue house), Tao Foods<\/a> (featuring an olden-timey screen door and bar where I hang out drinking chai with little nephews), The Wedge Community Coop<\/a>, (where you go into food paralysis when you enter because you just want everything, everything, everything, and where my friend Gaby has a good story about stopping on a coast to coast road trip dying for a decent meal after so much highway junk, gathering up a cart full of favorite things like hummus and carrots, getting to the cash register only to have her credit card rejected, at which point the ‘Minnesota Nice<\/a>‘ Wedge employee just pushed the bags her way, and told her to go on with her trip, but she went back to the car to make a mixed c.d. for him \u2013 which actually brought him to tears when she returned to present him with it), Yoga One<\/a> (the welcoming non-corporate, non-profit community yoga center that even has plants and skylights in the studio), Ecopolitan<\/a> (super raw cleansing vegan food served in the warm woody parlor of a typical old Lyndale Avenue house), Minneapolis Sculpture Garden<\/a> (one of my favorite places in city for anything picnic-y, opened in 1992 and later featuring a Meg Webster sculpture that made an early impression on me, consisting of a terraced inverted garden cone full of flowering plants you could enter through cor-ten steel panels through berms of earth and lose yourself in), and The Walker Art Center<\/a> (my cultural mecca where I was turned on to new art and architecture at an early age) – are all contained within a golden triangle where I would probably live most of my life were I to live here, mostly contained by Lyndale, Hennepin, and W. 22nd Street – plus since I was last here I see everyone riding around on these pretty bright lime green bikes<\/a> – ‘NEAT’, as we say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…(the city where I grew up but never lived as an adult, though with frequent trips back I am slowly discovering what’s here) is becoming clear this afternoon\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[473],"tags":[1058,1048,100,893,1767,1049,1045,386,1047],"class_list":["post-7429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota","tag-birchwood-cafe","tag-ecopolitan","tag-minneapolis","tag-minneapolis-sculpture-garden","tag-minnesota","tag-tao-foods","tag-the-wedge","tag-walker-art-center","tag-yoga-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7429"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7437,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions\/7437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}