{"id":2067,"date":"2026-09-08T14:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:43:34","slug":"the-midwest-clubs-first-oktoberfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/?p=2067","title":{"rendered":"The Midwest Club&#8217;s First Oktoberfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">The Midwest Club\u2019s first Oktoberfest landed exactly where it was supposed to: in a full East Wing, with brats on the table and a room that looked more like a beer garden than a clubhouse.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Saturday, October 3, drew a strong turnout of Midwesterners, guests, and new members. The club supplied the brats and franks; members filled in the sides. Together, the spread looked like a proper German picnic, only with better air-conditioning than Munich usually offers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Deb and Dave kept the East Wing moving with live music and a Bavarian twist. Polka lessons pulled in people who had never tried a step, sturdy shoes or not. Trivia filled the gaps between songs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Special thanks to our hosts for the evening, Sherri Perkins and Dennis Cole; Deb and Dave, who provided great music; Curt and Wendy Johnson for teaching even the two-left-foot crowd to Polka; and Ron Hand for the great photo memories displayed in our album below.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Dirndls and lederhosen showed up. So did smiles, side dishes, and appetites, which was all anyone really needed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Thanks to everyone who came, cooked, danced, or just stayed for the company. First Oktoberfest, done. The barrels are already looking forward to the next one.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Midwest Club\u2019s first Oktoberfest landed exactly where it was supposed to: in a full East Wing, with brats on the table and a room that looked more like a beer garden than a clubhouse. Saturday, October 3, drew a strong turnout of Midwesterners, guests, and new members. The club supplied the brats and franks; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}