{"id":7337,"date":"2018-07-13T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2018\/07\/13\/window-shopping-2\/"},"modified":"2018-07-13T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T19:45:00","slug":"window-shopping-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2018\/07\/13\/window-shopping-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Window Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180713desmarais.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7335\" height=\"3456\" width=\"4764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180713desmarais.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180713desmarais-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180713desmarais-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180713desmarais-1024x743.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4764px) 100vw, 4764px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Strange Boutique, <u>3458 Minnehaha Avenue<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I walk or drive by and catch a view of a disembodied lower torso, or a doll with a weird hat or shirt on, or a stuffed animal that disturbingly looks like my late dog&#8230;and it gives me pause.\u00a0 Other times I see weird disembodied lower torsos and retro coats with fur (real? I dunno) collars and catch a reflection in their front window of cars or pedestrians\u00a0passing,\u00a0and I have to stop to take the creative chaos all in! No doubt about it &#8212; it&#8217;s strange &#8212;\u00a0but in a good way, I think.<\/p>\n<p><u>Paul Durham<\/u> is the owner &#8212; a longtime vintage buyer and seller who&#8217;s owned previous stores including Swank in Minneapolis in the &#8217;90s.\u00a0 This store opened in 2016.\u00a0 \u00a0Strange carries\u00a0vintage, antique, taxidermy, repurposed and custom made items including furnishings, decor, artwork, clothing, accessories and oddities &#8212; oh, yeah, there are oddities!<\/p>\n<p>@strangeboutiquestore<\/p>\n<p>@MinnehahaMile<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Jean Des Marais<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange Boutique, 3458 Minnehaha Avenue Sometimes I walk or drive by and &#8230; <a title=\"Window Shopping\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2018\/07\/13\/window-shopping-2\/\" aria-label=\"More on Window Shopping\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[545,1393,1546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}