{"id":676,"date":"2009-01-05T18:07:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T22:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=676"},"modified":"2019-06-25T07:19:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T11:19:49","slug":"recession-education-attend-class-in-a-brooklyn-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/676\/recession-education-attend-class-in-a-brooklyn-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Recession Education: Attend &#8220;Class&#8221; in a Brooklyn Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What:<\/strong> Alert Education&#8217;s useless lecture series presents &#8220;Year in Review&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> Union Hall, Park Slope<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 8 pm (doors at 7:30)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why:<\/strong> It\u2019s the beginning of January, so New Year\u2019s resolutions are still in full swing. Brooklyn-based monthly multimedia lecture producer Adult Education looks back at 2008 and hits two of the most common resolutions: You\u2019ll \u201chave more fun\u201d while \u201clearning something new.\u201d Bet you didn&#8217;t know &#8220;Reboot&#8221; will be the buzzword of &#8217;09 or that pizza made technological advances in &#8217;08. (Not that we did.)<\/p>\n<p>Granted, at the uber-cool <strong>Union Hall<\/strong>, with its killer all-American-with-a-twist menu and great beers and wine, you\u2019re likely to break that whole, \u201cdrink\/eat less\u201d mantra. But hey, who really intends to keep those? Plus, with two bocce courts (exercise more, check), a cozy library lined with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, and an antique globe, you\u2019re bound to leave a little more enlightened, even if Joe Garden\u2019s look at the year in vampires isn\u2019t what you\u2019d call highbrow. And, <em>holy smokes<\/em>, entrance is only $5 so you\u2019re ahead of the game on that \u201cspend less\u201d promise. 2009 is looking good.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Cost:<\/strong> $5 cover<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to get there:<\/strong> <em>The R Train stops Union St., then walk east toward 5th Ave, or take the Q, 2, 3, 4 or 5 to Atlantic Ave and walk south on 5th Ave for 10 blocks, then turn left at Union St.; the B71 stops in front of Union Hall and the B63 stops around the corner at 5th Ave and Union St. (Union Hall, 702 Union St. @ 5th Ave, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionhallny.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unionhallny.com<\/a>)<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: Courtesy Union Hall<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What: Alert Education&#8217;s useless lecture series presents &#8220;Year in Review&#8221; Where: Union Hall, Park Slope When: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 8 pm (doors at 7:30) Why: It\u2019s the beginning of January, so New Year\u2019s resolutions are still in full swing. Brooklyn-based monthly multimedia lecture producer Adult Education looks back at 2008 and hits two of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,320,4],"tags":[31,262,15,261,263,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","8":"category-events","9":"tag-bar","10":"tag-bocce-ball","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-education","13":"tag-fireplace","14":"tag-park-slope"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}