{"id":17309,"date":"2015-12-07T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=17309"},"modified":"2015-12-07T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:00:50","slug":"a-93-inch-bear-and-monday-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/a-93-inch-bear-and-monday-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A 93-inch bear and Monday news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned FML, Feeny, Mary, and Lacey, who are my friends who bartend at the Blind Bear. Feeny and Mary recently became roommates, and another acronym &#8211; PBR, Paul, B-RAD, and Roger &#8211; decided to get them a housewarming gift.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Photo-Dec-05-2-12-05-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17310\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Photo-Dec-05-2-12-05-PM.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"Photo Dec 05, 2 12 05 PM\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Photo-Dec-05-2-12-05-PM.jpg?resize=375%2C500 375w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Photo-Dec-05-2-12-05-PM.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Photo-Dec-05-2-12-05-PM.jpg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the girls was at Costco and posted a photo to Facebook of a 93-inch-tall stuffed bear in a bin, and said, &#8220;I want this.&#8221; Rodger and I were at Brad&#8217;s bar when we saw the photo and said, &#8220;We&#8217;re totally getting them that bear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The girls love their bear but Feeny&#8217;s cat Sam is not too happy about his new roommate.<\/p>\n<p>In other news: Thrillist has an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/drink\/memphis\/female-bartenders-you-need-to-know-in-memphis\">female bartenders you need to know in Memphis<\/a> and several of my favorites made it.<\/p>\n<p>SO excited that my Hogs got invited to the Liberty Bowl. I kind of had a feeling all along that would happen. Arkansas will play Kansas State here on January 2.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Memphis Tigers, they have Auburn in the Birmingham Bowl. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/college-football\/2015\/12\/6\/8813825\/birmingham-bowl-2015-auburn-memphis-time-date-tv-schedule\">Here&#8217;s a preview.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Downtown food tip: The mac &amp; cheese that comes as a side with the Silly Goose&#8217;s sliders is probably the best I have ever had.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the break last week everyone. It&#8217;s been a weird year for me and I just needed some time to cope. Hopefully I will be resuming my regular blogging schedule this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned FML, Feeny, Mary, and Lacey, who are my friends who bartend at the Blind Bear. Feeny and Mary recently became roommates, and another acronym &#8211; PBR, Paul, B-RAD, and Roger &#8211; decided to get them a housewarming gift. One of the girls was at Costco and posted a photo to Facebook of a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/a-93-inch-bear-and-monday-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A 93-inch bear and Monday news&#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\/17309"}],"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=17309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17311,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions\/17311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17309"}],"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! -->