{"id":988,"date":"2024-07-08T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2024-05-05T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T14:25:42","slug":"busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Busted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Busted<\/span>!&nbsp; [3<sup>rd<\/sup> Inning]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_990\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Hitting-in-the-Metrodome.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-990\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-990 \" src=\"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Hitting-in-the-Metrodome-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Hitting in the Metrodome\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Hitting-in-the-Metrodome-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Hitting-in-the-Metrodome-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Hitting-in-the-Metrodome-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Hitting-in-the-Metrodome.jpg 1516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy swinging in Democrats vs. Republicans at the MetroDome<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After law school I returned to Minnesota in time for the opening of The Hubert H. Humphrey MetroDome.&nbsp; My friend Rocky, always the entrepreneur, had tee shirts printed saying \u201cI opened the Dome\u201d and had me and his eleven year-old nephew Danny hawking them the first Saturday in April, 1982.&nbsp; It was an exhibition game with the Cincinnati Reds, the first game ever in the Dome.&nbsp; Good thing the game was going to be played indoors because it was a bone-chilling 10 degrees outside.<\/p>\n<p>So I say to Danny, \u201cWe got tickets, let\u2019s go inside to sell these shirts.\u201d&nbsp; We hadn\u2019t even sold one shirt when the gendarmes busted us for selling without a license.&nbsp; Me and Danny were the first ever locked up in the MetroDome jail.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes, there\u2019s a jail in the MetroDome.&nbsp; And yes, they apparently had no qualms locking up an 11 year-old.&nbsp; I never imagined a ballpark would have a jail, with real bars and everything, but there we were.&nbsp; Whenever a cop would come by I\u2019d yell, \u201cHey, we\u2019ve got tickets!\u201d&nbsp; Finally around the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Inning a sergeant let us out and we found our seats.&nbsp;&nbsp; Later I learned the downtown precinct passed the shirts around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Busted!&nbsp; [3rd Inning] After law school I returned to Minnesota in time for the opening of The Hubert H. Humphrey MetroDome.&nbsp; My friend Rocky, always the entrepreneur, had tee shirts printed saying \u201cI opened the Dome\u201d and had me &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=988\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}