{"id":710,"date":"2014-02-02T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T22:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=710"},"modified":"2014-02-03T11:34:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:34:50","slug":"my-two-cents-on-two-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/02\/my-two-cents-on-two-dot\/","title":{"rendered":"My two cents on Two Dot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a good story<\/a> from Tom Lutey about Max Baucus’ last shot of whiskey at the Two Dot Bar.<\/p>\n

I have my own rather minor story about the Two Dot Bar. Many years ago, when my youngest daughter was barely 3, she and I drove from Billings to Boulder to visit a friend of mine. We stopped in Two Dot because \u2014 well, how can you not stop in Two Dot when you’re driving down Highway 12?<\/p>\n

We each got a can of pop in the Two Dot Bar and the bartender, a rather gruff woman, asked my daughter if we were going to Billings. No, she said. “Going to Helena?” the bartender asked. My daughter looked to me and I said, “More or less.”<\/p>\n

So the bartender said, “Ah, then you’re from Billings.” My daughter nodded yes and the bartender appeared quite pleased with herself. I didn’t think it was exactly Sherlock Holmesian, but oh, well.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s the upshot. My daughter took her can of pop and a straw out to the car, and a bit later, as we were cruising down Highway 12, I looked over and she had her legs crossed, her head thrown back and she was puffing on the straw.<\/p>\n

“Mind if I smoke?” she asked.<\/p>\n

It was funny, but I felt like a terrible role model.<\/p>\n

And I can’t mention Two Dot without thinking of Hank Williams Jr.’s song<\/a> about that town. It’s not a great song, but you’ve got to love the line, “I’ve been framed for killin’ a dude down in Dillon,” and its memorable chorus of “I’m from Two Dot, Montana, and I don’t give a damn.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a good story from Tom Lutey about Max Baucus’ last shot of whiskey at the Two Dot Bar. I have my own rather minor story about the Two Dot Bar. Many years ago, when my youngest daughter was barely 3, she and I drove from Billings to Boulder to visit a friend of mine. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[97,96,95,94],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-montana","tag-hank-williams-jr","tag-max-baucus","tag-tom-lutey","tag-two-dot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}