{"id":22314,"date":"2017-06-29T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22314"},"modified":"2017-06-29T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:19:52","slug":"at-my-zenith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22314","title":{"rendered":"At My Zenith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4048\/35616832715_15b97fc7b0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I pulled in front of the new Zenith Book Store soon to open on my way to have a mocha and some serious conversation at Beaners with Alanna Oswald. (We just learned that the State is not going to strip away <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22276\">$1.5 million in Achievement and Integration revenue<\/a> as they had once planned to do) As I got out of my car <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/astronomy-blogs\/explore-night-bob-king\/\">Bob King the Astronomer Supreme<\/a> and DNT photo journalist shouted to me from across the street, his Cannon dangling from his neck. He was there take a photo of the new bookstore, no doubt for the upcoming Monday Tribune&#8217;s business section. I backed my car out of the way so that all the bibliophiles in Duluth would have an unobstructed view of our newest independent bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>Then I had my mocha.<\/p>\n<p>Then Alanna and I wondered if the store was open yet or if we could get a sneak peak. Voila, the door gave way as the new owner Bob Dobrow rushed up to tell us they weren&#8217;t opening for a couple days. Still, he let us come in to smell the freshly, sanded, wood floor and the scent of ten thousand new books. It was heavenly. Then I saw the cool mugs on the shelf and told him I&#8217;d love to buy one of them. Bob&#8217;s son is a potter. The new owners hadn&#8217;t entered SKU numbers for them yet so he couldn&#8217;t take my credit card and I was out of cash. Alanna came to my rescue with some good old U.S. legal tender. I seem to have become the Zenith&#8217;s first customer. I&#8217;m not sure if I beat out the Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s customary framed first dollar bill. <\/p>\n<p>Alanna took my pic to record this momentous occasion. They looked to have a good selection of my kind of books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled in front of the new Zenith Book Store soon to open on my way to have a mocha and some serious conversation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22314"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22324,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22314\/revisions\/22324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}