{"id":553,"date":"2015-07-06T17:26:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T15:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=553"},"modified":"2015-07-06T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T15:26:33","slug":"secret-drive-in-ticket-office-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"EXPOSED: Secret drive-in ticket office ditches tech for telepathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-556\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG-20150706-WA000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-556 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG-20150706-WA000-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20150706-WA000\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG-20150706-WA000-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG-20150706-WA000-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG-20150706-WA000-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG-20150706-WA000-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG-20150706-WA000.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ORACLE AND THE ORIFICE &#8230; Punters seek out the mysterious voice behind the hole in the wall. That&#8217;s their car, Fish Head in the background. Beat that, Monument box office!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The best-kept ticket buying secret in town is a little drive-through office in Fiddler&#8217;s Green.<\/p>\n<p>There is one lonely, frozen woman on her cellphone sitting in a red-brick mausoleum (the old ticket office) behind a window which is barred on the outside with a cardboard interface on the inside between you and her.<\/p>\n<p>Using telepathy you give her your ticket requisition. Payment is done around the back, negotiating the cow pats, at the backdoor &#8230; at the security gate bars through which she thrusts the card machine.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have punched in your secret code, you go back round to the cardboard-barred window through which she gives you your tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, your life partner has bought many mini-doughnuts from the fairground caravan where again, there is no queue!<\/p>\n<p>Voila, festival is a-grazing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best-kept ticket buying secret in town is a little drive-through office in Fiddler&#8217;s Green. There is one lonely, frozen woman on her cellphone sitting in a red-brick mausoleum (the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=553\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[857],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}