{"id":2419,"date":"2007-06-18T09:16:43","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T17:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/are_people_in_los_angeles_that_stupid.html"},"modified":"2007-06-18T09:16:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T17:16:43","slug":"are_people_in_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/are_people_in_l.html","title":{"rendered":"Are People In Los Angeles That Stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06162007\/news\/regionalnews\/draining_clubgoer_wallets_regionalnews_braden_keil.htm\">the barfly&#8217;s version of the $60 barrel of oil<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>According to &#8220;Zagat New York City Nightlife 2007\/08,&#8221; the average drink now costs $10.12, up 7 percent from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Only Los Angeles and Las Vegas (minus the free drinks in the casinos) cost more at $10.66 and $11.86, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have more money in their pockets these days,&#8221; said Mario Stewart of Mantra 986, a Midtown lounge that opened in January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People might actually get suspicious &#8212; like they walked into a dive bar &#8212; if you charge too little.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a possible result of the costlier hooch, there are fewer clubgoers waiting behind velvet ropes to get into Gotham&#8217;s nightspots.<\/p>\n<p>About 36 percent of those surveyed by Zagat said they are going out less often.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the barfly&#8217;s version of the $60 barrel of oil: According to &#8220;Zagat New York City Nightlife 2007\/08,&#8221; the average drink now costs $10.12, up 7 percent from last year. Only Los Angeles and Las Vegas (minus the free drinks in the casinos) cost more at $10.66 and $11.86, respectively. &#8220;People have more money in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}