{"id":1420,"date":"2008-03-28T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/tiki-on-the-north-side\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T04:08:00","slug":"tiki-on-the-north-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/tiki-on-the-north-side\/","title":{"rendered":"TIKI on the North Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you go to a ridiculous amount of games across many different types of sports, you start to develop some unlikely friendships or in some cases, acquaintances.    Case in point&#8230;the Scalper on our Lawn, Broker Ben (who scalps at Wrigley and Northwestern (of all places), and our good friend Tiki.   <\/p>\n<p>Tiki is the parking attendant at Red Top\u2019s United Center lot.   We go to quite a few Bulls and Hawks games in the dead of winter and God BVless this man, but he is out there every night collecting money and vouchers for parking. <\/p>\n<p>Now, here is a quick tip about Red Top Lots at the United Center: you can prepay and get a booklet of tickets and save a few bucks.<\/p>\n<p>For the regulars, Tiki will recognize you and if you forget your ticket, he will \u2018get ya next time.\u2019  <\/p>\n<p> With Opening Day so close and the Bulls going nowhere, you must wonder why Tiki is even on this blog.  Well, it is a small, small sports world.  We went to park our car at the Red Top lot on our corner and whose car is in our regular spot?  TIKI\u2019s.   <\/p>\n<p>We presume its for a Red Top Staff meeting in preparation for the season but we just love the irony of the parking karma coming full circle\u2026.well, &#8220;get ya next time, Tiki!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you go to a ridiculous amount of games across many different types of sports, you start to develop some unlikely friendships or in some cases, acquaintances.    Case in point&#8230;the Scalper on our Lawn, Broker Ben (who scalps at Wrigley and Northwestern (of all places), and our good friend Tiki.<br \/>\nTiki is the parking attendant at Red Top\u2019s United Center lot.   We go to quite a few Bulls and Hawks games in the dead of winter and God BVless this man, but he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}