{"id":1539,"date":"2008-02-01T14:51:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T20:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2008-02-01T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T20:51:39","slug":"should-i-go-for-a-second-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/should-i-go-for-a-second-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I go for a second plate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/plate_small.jpg\" title=\"plate_small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/plate_small.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"plate_small.jpg\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In November 2005 I completed my 200th different beer and got my plate on the wall at the Flying Saucer.\u00a0 It took me two and a half years to do it.\u00a0 People have asked if I plan on going for a second plate, and I&#8217;ve always said no.\u00a0 I figure, I&#8217;ve tried them all once and have earned the right to drink only beers I like and discounted beers on Fire Sale.<\/p>\n<p>However, a few months ago I changed my tune:\u00a0 I would be willing to go for a second plate on one condition.\u00a0 That condition is, if I could complete the 200 beers in exactly 67 days.\u00a0 They only count three per day to avoid people getting wasted and driving home.\u00a0 200 divided by 3 is 67 when you round.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when I first thought about doing the plate in 67 days, it wasn&#8217;t possible, because I had upcoming out-of-town trips for Thanksgiving and Christmas.\u00a0 I was also considering moving my base of operations to the Downtown Blue Monkey once it opened.\u00a0 However, now I&#8217;m in a position to do it&#8230; I don&#8217;t see any trips away from Memphis on the radar between now and May, and I&#8217;ve reversed my earlier decision about the Monkey and decided the Saucer will remain my base.\u00a0 Also, if I start soon I can have the 200 done in time to throw my $100 plate party money in with Rapscallion Party VII, which will likely happen in late April.<\/p>\n<p>Going to think about it over the weekend&#8230; don&#8217;t want to go ahead and start because tonight&#8217;s field trip to The Cove and Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl party will prevent me from being at the Saucer long enough to drink 3 beers those days.\u00a0 If I do it, Monday will be the start date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2005 I completed my 200th different beer and got my plate on the wall at the Flying Saucer.\u00a0 It took me two and a half years to do it.\u00a0 People have asked if I plan on going for a second plate, and I&#8217;ve always said no.\u00a0 I figure, I&#8217;ve tried them all once &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/should-i-go-for-a-second-plate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should I go for a second plate?&#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\/1539"}],"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=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"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! -->