{"id":30,"date":"2005-06-29T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2005-06-29T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T03:59:00","slug":"palais-royales-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/palais-royales-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Palais Royale&#039;s last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotoflix.com\/users\/pjoris\/foto\/39281\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fotoflix.com\/foto?key=366798a36897da147400f7c6192c78a8&#038;size=400x300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So we went out late last night to pay homage to the final evening in one of Albany&#8217;s oldest watering holes, the Palais Royale \u2014 there used to be poetry readings here in the seventies &#038; eighties, both townie &amp; gownie ones, Don Byrd told me when I first arrived in town in the early 90s, &#038; even after the readings stopped it was a good place to hang with the students and the town poetas, though talk could be difficult due to the battlin&#8217; jukeboxes. Rocky Nigro, the owner, was always worth having a chat with, especially after 3 a.m. \u2014 he would show up each &amp; every night some time after midnight into his nineties, in fact, until he died late last year. Nicole wrote up a little memoir of the place, backed by photos taken there on the last night. Follow URL above.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we went out late last night to pay homage to the final evening in one of Albany&#8217;s oldest watering holes, the Palais Royale \u2014 there used to be poetry readings here in the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}