{"id":1025,"date":"2007-06-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2007-06-06T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T04:00:00","slug":"second-place-tube-top-and-a-great-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/06\/second-place-tube-top-and-a-great-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Second place, tube top, and a great question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to the Rapscallions, who won second place in trivia tonight, tying with The Other Downtown Team That Always Changes Their Name, then defeating them on the tie-breaker question (&#8220;tallest snowman ever&#8221;).  That brings our total gift certificate stash to $230.  We need to have a party SOON &#8211; certificates about to expire &#8211; I&#8217;ll e-mail everyone about it.<\/p>\n<p>We had a tube top sighting tonight.  Pic:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/images\/paola-tubetop.jpg?resize=300%2C400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sorry guys, she&#8217;s taken.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuh-Uh Sister told me that she bought a new tube top, however.  Maybe she&#8217;ll wear it next week.<\/p>\n<p>Sample question from this week:  Name 3 countries that begin with an &#8220;R.&#8221;  Countries beginning with &#8220;Republic of&#8221; don&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>The answers:<\/p>\n<p>RWANDA<br \/>RUSSIA<br \/>and<br \/><span style=\"font-size:180%;\">ROMANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What a great question!  Thanks Pete!<\/p>\n<p>And now, I have to go to bed, so I can be up in time to go to the Rat Race tomorrow.  Will it ever end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to the Rapscallions, who won second place in trivia tonight, tying with The Other Downtown Team That Always Changes Their Name, then defeating them on the tie-breaker question (&#8220;tallest snowman ever&#8221;). That brings our total gift certificate stash to $230. We need to have a party SOON &#8211; certificates about to expire &#8211; I&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/06\/second-place-tube-top-and-a-great-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Second place, tube top, and a great question&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->