{"id":5480,"date":"2026-10-02T07:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/cops-and-cold-beer-st-louis-police-bar-stories\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:51:51","slug":"cops-and-cold-beer-st-louis-police-bar-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/cops-and-cold-beer-st-louis-police-bar-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops and Cold Beer: St. Louis Police Bar Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FcNn7fTI2gGw%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cops, Camaraderie, and Cold Beer: Stories From the St. Louis Police Bar Scene\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cNn7fTI2gGw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 2, 2026 (STL.News) Cops and Cold Beer \u2013 St. Louis has always been a city of neighborhood taverns, breweries, and people who work hours that don\u2019t necessarily end at 5 p.m. Police officers have been part of that culture. Over the years, certain St. Louis taverns became particularly well known as gathering places for off-duty and retired officers. They weren\u2019t official police clubs, and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department didn\u2019t operate them. They were neighborhood bars open to the public. But some developed unmistakable reputations as places cops gathered after their shifts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/cops-and-cold-beer-st-louis-police-bar-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 2, 2026 (STL.News) Cops and Cold Beer \u2013 St. Louis has always been a city of neighborhood taverns, breweries, and people who work hours that don\u2019t necessarily end at 5 p.m. Police officers have been&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5482,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions\/5482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}