{"id":11387,"date":"2025-10-09T14:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11387"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:40:34","slug":"working-as-a-waitress-in-a-cocktail-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/09\/working-as-a-waitress-in-a-cocktail-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Working as a Waitress in a Cocktail bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Burning Man 2023, I walked into the &#8220;Black Hole&#8221;, a bar in the center of the event. It&#8217;s the home of Black Rock City&#8217;s Gate, Perimeter and Exodus Department. I was looking for a friend (Hi PPG!), sat down a bit nervous, looking around for them. I was there for a few minutes, wondering how to find my friend when I finally realized I had NO IDEA HOW LONG I HAD BEEN THERE. The reason, of course, is that this song was playing ON REPEAT in the background. It was, in retrospect, brilliant!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Working as a waitress in a cocktailbar\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_74N7KJmEj4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(The song is a remix of the Human League song, &#8220;Don&#8217;t You Want Me&#8221;, which just repeats the phrase, &#8220;You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar&#8221; for the entire song. Amazing!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Burning Man 2023, I walked into the &#8220;Black Hole&#8221;, a bar in the center of the event. It&#8217;s the home of Black Rock City&#8217;s Gate, Perimeter and Exodus Department. I was looking for a friend (Hi PPG!), sat down a bit nervous, looking around for them. I was there for a few minutes, wondering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11389,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions\/11389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}