{"id":12820,"date":"2012-09-24T13:25:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=12820"},"modified":"2012-09-24T13:25:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:25:25","slug":"mon-update-chilis-new-blind-bear-brunch-items-learn-to-homebrew-and-funny-bbq-competition-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/mon-update-chilis-new-blind-bear-brunch-items-learn-to-homebrew-and-funny-bbq-competition-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon update: Chili&#8217;s, new Blind Bear brunch items, learn to homebrew, and funny BBQ competition story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, a reminder: 100% of Chili&#8217;s profits today go to St. Jude. I realize I&#8217;m blogging this after most of you have eaten lunch, but if you don&#8217;t have dinner plans, how about Chili&#8217;s? Let&#8217;s raise a big pile of money for the children&#8217;s research hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I dropped by the Blind Bear while they were serving their Hung Over Like a Bear brunch, and learned that they&#8217;ve added a couple of items to the brunch menu. They now have biscuits and gravy, a staple at many restaurants that serve brunch.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve also added chili cheese bear dawgs, a good thing to have during football season. Hung Over Like a Bear brunch runs from noon to 6 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Ever thought about brewing your own beer? The Bluff City Brewers will have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/339024976187311\/\">Learn to Homebrew Day<\/a> on Saturday, November 3.<\/p>\n<p>Social media\/marketing guru Jay Baer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.convinceandconvert.com\/social-business\/what-we-can-learn-from-me-getting-kicked-out-of-a-bbq-contest\/\">got fired as a BBQ judge<\/a> last weekend. It&#8217;s not a Memphis-related story, but I thought I&#8217;d post it since a lot of my readers participate in BBQ festivals, either as team members or as judges. His story is pretty damn funny.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll do it for now. I&#8217;ll be at Pint Nite at the Saucer about 6. Poker at the Silly Goose (8:30) is a &#8220;maybe&#8221; this week because I stayed out way too late last night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, a reminder: 100% of Chili&#8217;s profits today go to St. Jude. I realize I&#8217;m blogging this after most of you have eaten lunch, but if you don&#8217;t have dinner plans, how about Chili&#8217;s? Let&#8217;s raise a big pile of money for the children&#8217;s research hospital. Yesterday I dropped by the Blind Bear &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/mon-update-chilis-new-blind-bear-brunch-items-learn-to-homebrew-and-funny-bbq-competition-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mon update: Chili&#8217;s, new Blind Bear brunch items, learn to homebrew, and funny BBQ competition story&#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\/12820"}],"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=12820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12821,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820\/revisions\/12821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12820"}],"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! -->