{"id":105499,"date":"2022-02-03T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=105499"},"modified":"2022-02-03T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T01:48:08","slug":"connections-gastonia-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=105499","title":{"rendered":"Connections (Gastonia, North Carolina)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/420-1024x475.png\" alt=\"This building here at 420 W. Main Avenue in Gastonia, North Carolina was once the home to Night Owls of Gastonia, Asylum and later Connections. This is as it appeared in a 2018 Google Street View capture.\" class=\"wp-image-105500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/420-1024x475.png 1024w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/420-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/420-768x357.png 768w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/420.png 1415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>This building here at 420 W. Main Avenue in Gastonia, North Carolina was once the home to Night Owls of Gastonia, Asylum and later Connections. This is as it appeared in a 2018 Google Street View capture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Connections, now closed, was a bar located at 420 W. Main Avenue.  The venue operated as Connections from 2012 through 2013.  It was also home to the previous <a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=101879\">Night Owls of Gastonia<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=105507\">Asylum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/118985587_683723472350998_7107068941846985922_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/118985587_683723472350998_7107068941846985922_n-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Connections (Gastonia, North Carolina)\" class=\"wp-image-105505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/118985587_683723472350998_7107068941846985922_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/118985587_683723472350998_7107068941846985922_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/118985587_683723472350998_7107068941846985922_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/118985587_683723472350998_7107068941846985922_n-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/118985587_683723472350998_7107068941846985922_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Connections (Gastonia, North Carolina)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"connections-pageants-held\">Connections: Pageants Held<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=51867\">Miss Connections<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=51864\">Mr. Connections<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-109755c8-51fd-4820-a68f-c970d8d8659e\">Connections: Entertainers Featured<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=45142\">Chip Matthews<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=45506\">Country Casinova<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=45090\">Felicity Ferraro<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=122682\">Kylie Minaj<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=4586\">Tia Douglas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connections, now closed, was a bar located at 420 W. 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The venue operated as Connections from 2012 through&#8230; <span class=\"gridview-grid-post-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=105499\">read more<span class=\"gridview-sr-only\"> Connections (Gastonia, North Carolina)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-105499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places","tag-north-carolina","wpcat-14-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}