{"id":8799,"date":"2014-03-19T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:15:51","slug":"bullshot-ryan-werner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-ryan-werner\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Ryan Werner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PW<\/strong>: Do the youth where you live in Cuba City have an arcade? Do you ever go there to relive the glory days?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>RW<\/strong>: There&#8217;s no arcade in Cuba City these days. I&#8217;m actually not even sure if there ever was one. That old Main Street schtick from the story is based on Cuba City, though, so who knows. Maybe I&#8217;ll ask my dad.<\/p>\n<p>Even if there was, I wouldn&#8217;t know, because we moved there when I was sixteen. We lived out in the country and I never really figured out what the youth were supposed to do in Cuba City or anywhere else. Going to an arcade was always a big deal.\u00a0Sunset Lanes had the Hellraiser pinball machine.\u00a0Skate Country had Lucky &amp; Wild. Creslanes had Die Hard Arcade and a quarter-a-can Surge soda machine. I liked Aladdin&#8217;s Castle in Dubuque a lot even though they didn&#8217;t have pinball. Arcade III in Platteville had a pretty good selection even though it was primarily a bowling alley and there were never, to my knowledge, an Arcade I or II. They changed their name to Pioneer Lanes a few years ago, which is just dumb.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been back to Cuba City at least once every few weeks ever since I moved there. I never made it very far away, and probably never will. My mom did my laundry until I was 26. I go out to the farm all the time and she makes me something deep fried. I still get all my mail there, too.<\/p>\n<p>There are half a dozen horses just running around outside our house. My glory days never ended.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsinite and author of &#8220;Go Says No&#8221; talks about arcades and life on the farm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115,204],"class_list":["post-8799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-growing-up","tag-youth","writer-pete-witte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17519,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions\/17519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}