{"id":143,"date":"2019-03-31T07:41:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T14:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=999944372"},"modified":"2019-03-31T07:41:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T14:41:24","slug":"video-petroleum-club-closes-its-drill-bit-doors-for-the-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/video-petroleum-club-closes-its-drill-bit-doors-for-the-last-time","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Petroleum Club closes its drill bit doors for the last time today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Petroleum Club comes to an end after opening in 1958\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UoINvcKgeh4?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach Petroleum Club closes for good today.<\/p>\n<p>The club, more than 60 years old, has had a hard time of late attracting new members, and that has led to it being sold. For some, it&#8217;s simply a sign of the times.\u00a0Ryan Bailey, the man who helped put together the club&#8217;s sale said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/once-exclusive-petroleum-club-early-days-escrow\/\">earlier Post article<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s sad, maybe, but I don&#8217;t think a social club like this is something that works these days with younger people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others, feel the way Petroleum Club president Mick Connor does <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/arts-culture\/leroy-petroleum-club\/\">when he opined<\/a>: &#8220;I wish this place could go on forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The club will go on until 6 p.m. tonight, its fabulous circular bar open to the public for one last toast, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The club&#8217;s fabulous circular bar will be open to the public for one last toast, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":65675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[121],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-petroleum-club","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}