{"id":797330,"date":"2026-07-12T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797330\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T15:56:10","slug":"local-instagram-account-trying-to-change-public-perception-of-a-dive-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797330\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Instagram Account Trying to Change Public Perception of a Dive Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pint-beer-alcohol-stock.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Local Instagram Account Trying to Change Public Perception of a Dive Bar\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>A local Instagram account is getting plenty of attention for highlighting the stories behind different neighbourhood bars.<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland Dive Bars was created by Brian Ozon and Jillian Morgan after seeing something similar being done in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<p>Videos on the account highlight what the business is like and some of the history behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan believes a lot of people have a negative\u00a0perception about what a dive bar is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey think it means it is sketchy or rough around the edges, but you kind of have to see the beauty in that. They\u2019re really unpretentious and it\u2019s\u2026. come-as-you-are and is a really welcoming environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newfoundlanddivebars<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) A local Instagram account is getting plenty of attention for highlighting the stories behind different&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-797330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}