
{"id":1673,"date":"2008-01-16T18:13:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T02:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/01\/16\/clubbing-at-the-open-eye-cafe\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T18:13:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T02:13:11","slug":"clubbing-at-the-open-eye-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/01\/16\/clubbing-at-the-open-eye-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Clubbing at the Open Eye Caf\u00c3\u00a9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Rebekah Cowell<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In our house, when you go to get a cup of coffee at the Open Eye, it is called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clubbing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d! The term was coined by my toddler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father. One day he brought Hannah with him; she was still an infant \u00e2\u20ac\u201d alert and happy to look around, she took in the music jamming, the color of the characters milling around the counter in their effervescent uniqueness, and it made her chortle and coo with glee. Her father came home and told me she had loved \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clubbing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d After that, the phrase stuck. Now when one of us takes her to get coffee, we ask her if she wants to go clubbing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d she smiles, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a walking girl now, and she likes to do a few dance moves while we wait for our cup, especially if the rhythms are just right. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Open Eye became my home-away-from-home many years ago. Then I was a student at Carolina, I chose Carrboro versus Franklin Street for my coffee shop studying. I wrote many a philosophical paper in the former Open Eye space \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that small little den-like room, encouraging intimacy and privacy all at once. One summer day, having a painful turn of events with my affairs of the heart \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I sat at my laptop and wrote an anguished letter, tears streaming down my face. No one invaded my privacy, no one stared, but the barrister walked by my table, leaving a Guglehuph chocolate croissant as he passed. My dignity was preserved.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a full-time mother, I rarely get to sit and write in the Open Eye \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it is at the top of my list of things I anticipate renewing once Hannah reaches that phase of having time away from mum.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I grab my cup, let Hannah dance and mingle until her patience hits its limit and leave knowing I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been a part of the happening \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clubbing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d scene.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rebekah Cowell is a mother and writer and a graduate of UNC who resides in north Chatham.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebekah Cowell In our house, when you go to get a cup of coffee at the Open Eye, it is called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clubbing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d! The term was coined by my toddler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father. One day he brought Hannah with him; she was still an infant \u00e2\u20ac\u201d alert and happy to look around, she took in the music jamming,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}