{"id":2735,"date":"2008-11-04T13:05:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T19:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2008-11-04T13:05:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T19:05:59","slug":"tribes-and-elections-discount-dining-apa-party-still-undecided-where-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/tribes-and-elections-discount-dining-apa-party-still-undecided-where-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribes and elections, discount dining, APA party, still undecided where to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a good blog post by marketer Seth Godin on <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2008\/11\/marketing-lesso.html\">Obama&#8217;s and McCain&#8217;s campaigns, marketing, and the concept of &#8220;tribes.&#8221;<\/a> He has a good explanation why Obama&#8217;s campaign has been a success and McCain&#8217;s has not.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m re-launching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-dining.biz\">Discount Dining<\/a>, a site I ran for a while last year and then forgot about.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a site that links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-2269484-10422977\" target=\"_top\">Restaurant.com<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lduhtrp.net\/image-2269484-10422977\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> and provides information about their dining discount program.\u00a0 On Discount Dining, I&#8217;m starting mailing lists by city where you can be notified of specials they occasionally run where they sell their certificates for 50% off, or sometimes even more.<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me&#8230; there&#8217;s a special going on through November 6.\u00a0 Use coupon code VOTE at checkout to get 50% off.\u00a0 That means $25 face-value gift certificates, normally sold for $10, are now $5 with the coupon code.  You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-2269484-10538244\">take 50% off Dinner of the Month Club purchase with the code VOTE<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tqlkg.com\/image-2269484-10538244\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>.\u00a0 Here are links to the individual cities on Discount Dining:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-dining.biz\/memphis\/\">Memphis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-dining.biz\/austin\/\">Austin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-dining.biz\/denver\/\">Denver<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-dining.biz\/littlerock\/\">Little Rock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-dining.biz\/milwaukee\/\">Milwaukee<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-dining.biz\/nashville\/\">Nashville<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-dining.biz\/neworleans\/\">New Orleans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-dining.biz\/phoenix\/\">Phoenix<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-dining.biz\/sandiego\/\">San Diego<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Animal Protection Association is having its 2nd annual Santa Paws Party and Art Auction at Stop 345 on Sunday, November 23.\u00a0 Details below (click the flyer for a larger image):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/santapawsflyer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2736\" title=\"santapawsflyer\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/santapawsflyer.jpg?resize=500%2C647\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/santapawsflyer.jpg?w=1275 1275w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/santapawsflyer.jpg?resize=231%2C300 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info about the APA and the party <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaymemphis.com\/apahome\/Home.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still undecided where I&#8217;ll watch the election results.\u00a0 The Saucer would&#8217;ve been my pick if they had put something tasty on Fire Sale.\u00a0 But Shiner Bock&#8230; bleh.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not horrible but it&#8217;s not one of my favorites, either.\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s a 3-way tossup between Bardog, the Saucer, and Calhoun&#8217;s.\u00a0 I may have to flip a coin to decide.\u00a0 Or flip 3 coins and odd one out wins, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a good blog post by marketer Seth Godin on Obama&#8217;s and McCain&#8217;s campaigns, marketing, and the concept of &#8220;tribes.&#8221; He has a good explanation why Obama&#8217;s campaign has been a success and McCain&#8217;s has not. I&#8217;m re-launching Discount Dining, a site I ran for a while last year and then forgot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/tribes-and-elections-discount-dining-apa-party-still-undecided-where-to-watch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tribes and elections, discount dining, APA party, still undecided where to watch&#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\/2735"}],"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=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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