{"id":13583,"date":"2010-01-29T06:47:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2010-01-30T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T05:30:06","slug":"sia-2010-welcome-to-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13583","title":{"rendered":"SIA 2010: Welcome To Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-2-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-2-1.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-2-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"322\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"012810  2-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our first night in Denver we heard reports that our hotel had been the site of a near shootout with cops the previous night. Then, when we tried to drop by the 686 party at the <strong>Tarantula Billards &#38; Bar<\/strong> it had already had shut down by a reportedly drugged up civilian who tried to run out on his bar tab. Six Denver cops later and the guy was handcuffed and in the back of the car. One visitor from the Northwest said it was the gnarliest thing he had ever seen. &#8220;The cops did everything they could to get the guy to cooperate, but he just kept going at them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All this and we haven&#8217;t been inside the Denver Convention Center. But we&#8217;re going in today and we&#8217;ll keep you posted. Follow us on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/boardistan\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong> if you want the latest updates.<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-17.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-17.jpg','popup','width=750,height=1000,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-17-tm.jpg\" height=\"573\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"012810  17\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Nikita&#8217;s<\/strong> on stage &#8220;fashion show&#8221; at Leela European Cafe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-21.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-21.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-21-tm.jpg\" height=\"322\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"012810  21\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLadies and gentlemen, a Northwest legend. . . <strong>Mr. Johnny Laing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-23.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-23.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012810_-23-tm.jpg\" height=\"322\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"012810  23\" \/><\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thepublic.speakeasytiger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Speakeasy Tiger<\/a><\/strong>. . . live and free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first night in Denver we heard reports that our hotel had been the site of a near shootout with cops the previous night. Then, when we tried to drop by the 686 party at the Tarantula Billards &#38; Bar it had already had shut down by a reportedly drugged up civilian who tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13628,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions\/13628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}