{"id":17751,"date":"2009-09-08T11:03:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T16:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=17751"},"modified":"2009-09-10T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T18:32:30","slug":"welcome-to-the-black-rock-diner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/burning-man-2009\/welcome-to-the-black-rock-diner\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Black Rock Diner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17752\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/600_burnman_black_rock_diner_8801+web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17752\" title=\"600_burnman_black_rock_diner_8801+web\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/600_burnman_black_rock_diner_8801+web.jpg?resize=600%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Black Rock Diner at Burning Man 2009. Photo by Eric Francis.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/600_burnman_black_rock_diner_8801+web.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/600_burnman_black_rock_diner_8801+web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Rock Diner at Burning Man 2009. Photo by Eric Francis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the traditions of Burning Man is you do something extravagant and give it away free. There is a ban on selling anything, so whatever you bring is going to be a gift to the community. The Black Rock Diner served free grilled cheese, nearly around the clock, for a week. The mood inside was like a lounge, mellow and inviting. There was a deejay in one room of the diner and a hang-out area with a massage table on another room. Imagine it&#8217;s 4 am, you&#8217;ve wandered off the playa at the tail end of a night tripping and dancing, and you find this oasis of food and calm. Other camps served free drinks or coffee; offered free bicycle repair; teeshirt decoration with a spin art machine; and Poly Paradise, where I was staying, offered daily talks every morning (called Poly High Tea) and then, each afternoon, the Human Carcass Wash, where you could get a free shower, ably asssisted by people with squirt guns and soap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the traditions of Burning Man is you do something extravagant and give it away free. There is a ban on selling anything, so whatever you bring is going to be a gift to the community. The Black Rock Diner served free grilled cheese, nearly around the clock, for a week. The mood inside &#8230; <a title=\"Welcome to the Black Rock Diner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/burning-man-2009\/welcome-to-the-black-rock-diner\/\" aria-label=\"More on Welcome to the Black Rock Diner\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1562],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}