{"id":11762,"date":"2016-11-02T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=11762"},"modified":"2016-11-02T10:20:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T15:20:34","slug":"mokan-nama-spends-a-night-on-the-toms-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=11762","title":{"rendered":"MoKan NAMA Spends a Night on the Tom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MoKan Chapter of NAMA took a tour last month of Tom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Town, a Kansas City distillery that produces vodka, gin, and whiskey. But what it really produced was a refreshingly good time for local NAMA colleagues, including members of the University of Missouri Student NAMA chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Acting as the chapter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fall Kickoff event, attendees learned how Tom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Town got its inspiration from the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most polarizing and corrupt political boss, Tom Pendergast. Known as King Tom, Pendergast\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s irreverence for federal statutes in favor of bare-knuckled local capitalism allowed Kansas City to emerge as the Paris of the Plains. Spirits were certainly raised this night, in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"319\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-IMG_4247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11766 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-IMG_4247-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"mokan-sept-at-distillery-img_4247\" width=\"245\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-IMG_4247-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-IMG_4247-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-IMG_4247-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"319\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-IMG_4246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11765 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-IMG_4246-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"mokan-sept-at-distillery-img_4246\" width=\"245\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-IMG_4246-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-IMG_4246-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-IMG_4246-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"319\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-20160927_163233.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-20160927_163233-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"??????????????\" width=\"245\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-20160927_163233-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-20160927_163233-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-Sept-at-Distillery-20160927_163233-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"319\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-at-Distillery-IMG_4245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11763 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-at-Distillery-IMG_4245-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"mokan-at-distillery-img_4245\" width=\"184\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-at-Distillery-IMG_4245-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-at-Distillery-IMG_4245-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MoKan Chapter of NAMA took a tour last month of Tom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Town, a Kansas City distillery that produces vodka, gin, and whiskey. But what it really produced was a refreshingly good time for local NAMA colleagues, including members of the University of Missouri Student NAMA chapter. Acting as the chapter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fall Kickoff event, attendees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11762"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11777,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762\/revisions\/11777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}