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<\/a><\/p>\nThe rooster guarding the front door was in the Christmas spirit.<\/p>\n
Christmas decorations, a Christmas tree, and the Dempseys.<\/p>\n Sam the thinking elf<\/p>\n Me with August BFF of the Month candidates Kristin and Darbi.\u00a0 Note that Darbi has a tube top on.<\/p>\n Outside:\u00a0 A Christmas tree, snow machine, a sleigh, and reindeer.<\/p>\n The Plaintiffs rocked it out onstage and got the crowd dancing.<\/p>\n The St. Jude scientists make a blog appearance for the second consecutive day.<\/p>\n My co-worker Tanner, making a rare Rooster appearance.<\/p>\n Darbi liked The Plaintiffs so much, she tried to get on stage and sing with them.<\/p>\n Here’s a link to the full photo album (44 pics).<\/a> It’s a shame The Dempseys played as early as they did (6 to 7), because they sounded incredible on the Rooster’s stage.\u00a0 Hopefully the club will bring them back for a full-length performance sometime soon.<\/p>\n It was a block party, with bands inside and outside… but July is a rough month to throw a block party.\u00a0 With temps around 90 and mosquitoes biting, most people chose to stay inside the club.\u00a0 I felt sorry for the girls working the 4 outside beer stations, who weren’t making any money.<\/p>\n There were a lot of people inside though, which is a good thing because they raised some serious money for Make-a-Wish.\u00a0 I tip my hat to the Rooster for finding a way to give back to the community and provide some quality entertainment at the same time.<\/p>\n Plans for today:\u00a0 I’m going to walk up to the Election Commission and cast my vote, for Steve Cohen of course.\u00a0 Then I’m going to spend the afternoon building my next website.\u00a0 Tonight:\u00a0 Not sure, no definite plans.\u00a0 I’m 50% on skipping brunch tomorrow, depending on the progress I make on my website today.<\/p>\n Probably more blog posts to come this afternoon, since I’ll have the laptop with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night was “Christmas in July,” a fundraiser for Make-a-Wish at the Red Rooster, with The Dempseys, The Plaintiffs, and Frankie Hollie and the Noise.\u00a0 Here are a few pics. The rooster guarding the front door was in the Christmas spirit. Christmas decorations, a Christmas tree, and the Dempseys. Sam the thinking elf Me with … Continue reading “Photo album: Christmas in July at the Red Rooster”<\/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\/2364"}],"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=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n