{"id":2443703,"date":"2019-05-02T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/paradise-robbed\/"},"modified":"2019-05-03T07:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:56:44","slug":"paradise-robbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/paradise-robbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise robbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If anyone could name the most beloved gathering place in town, it is hands-down Paradise Corner. Not just for quality ice cream, coffee, muffins and world-famous cookies, but welcoming staff and community-minded owners. Music school students vie for this seven-night-per week prime venue, providing a delightful and rich experience for every attendant and passerby, throughout the summer. This nearly 40-year treasure to be robbed from our town, even with the Patterson brothers matching the landlords rent increase? Yes, we do need more high-end clothing \u2014 so lacking in Aspen. True, the Hechts are powerful, impeccably moral, and even famous. Why, Nikos has commanded front-page news for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">To be sure, \u201cParadise Lost\u201d will be an oft-heard sorry statement of pathetic priorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Were I to purchase Loro Piana\u2019s $2,750 floral blazer, I wonder if they would allow me to eat a cookie in the store?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Sharon DeQuine<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/paradise-robbed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone could name the most beloved gathering place in town, it is hands-down Paradise Corner. Not just for quality ice cream, coffee, muffins and world-famous cookies, but welcoming staff and community-minded owners. Music school students vie for this seven-night-per week prime venue, providing a delightful and rich experience for every attendant and passerby, throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 15:39:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}