{"id":257,"date":"2005-12-21T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=257"},"modified":"2005-12-21T04:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T04:06:00","slug":"bloggers-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/bloggers-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers&#8217; Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a Bloggers&#8217; Bash tomorrow night, Wednesday, December 21 at Quetzal at 668 Union.  Anyone who writes a blog, LiveJournal, MySpace or similar is invited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/BloggerBashBad-709206.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/BloggerBashBad-707234.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>In preparation for the event, I went out and read some of the other Memphis blogs.  You know, it&#8217;s funny, they talk about actual <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">useful stuff<\/span>.  Like, some of them tell you what&#8217;s going on around town, and some of them offer commentary on the news and politics.  And then there&#8217;s mine, where the typical entry is something like, &#8220;Tonight I went to the Saucer, and on the way there, this bum begged me for money, and once I got there I drank some beer, and there were these Romanian waitresses, and they were hot.  And then I walked to the Tap Room, and drank some more beer, and watched cartoons with the bartender, and there was a girl in a tube top, and she was hot.  And now I&#8217;m home and I&#8217;m drunk and I&#8217;m posting to my blog.&#8221;  And yet for some reason this crap consistently draws 30-60 visits a day.  I can&#8217;t figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>That reminds me, Sunday I was at the Tap Room, getting drunk&#8230; (see, here we go)&#8230; and one of the managers there is a good friend of mine.  He is also friends with the publisher of the Memphis Flyer, and apparently the publisher has been asking him, &#8220;Who in the world is this Paul Ryburn guy?  I&#8217;ve been getting all these e-mails, from people who are upset that we didn&#8217;t mention his blog in the Best Of Memphis edition.  Is this guy somewhat of a downtown legend?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Downtown legend?  I don&#8217;t know.  I&#8217;m just a guy who goes out a lot and writes about what he sees.  (&#8220;I live in Memphis.  I go out.&#8221;  Wait, some other blogger has already laid claim to that slogan.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have a feeling this party is going to be REAL interesting.  I&#8217;ll take my laptop and my digital camera, and file a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a Bloggers&#8217; Bash tomorrow night, Wednesday, December 21 at Quetzal at 668 Union. Anyone who writes a blog, LiveJournal, MySpace or similar is invited. In preparation for the event, I went out and read some of the other Memphis blogs. You know, it&#8217;s funny, they talk about actual useful stuff. Like, some of them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/bloggers-bash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bloggers&#8217; Bash&#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\/257"}],"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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"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! -->