{"id":5647,"date":"2010-01-14T23:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T05:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=5647"},"modified":"2010-01-14T23:58:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T05:58:13","slug":"this-kind-of-thing-is-why-im-proud-to-be-a-downtowner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/14\/this-kind-of-thing-is-why-im-proud-to-be-a-downtowner\/","title":{"rendered":"This kind of thing is why I&#8217;m proud to be a Downtowner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the Saucer where Dos Equis Lager was the Fire Sale&#8230; and I had way too many of them.<\/p>\n<p>While there, I received a text from the bartender at Kooky Canuck.\u00a0 &#8220;Come down, ur friends are here,&#8221; said the text.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately I had a full beer, and by the time I finished it I received word that they had left.\u00a0 &#8220;Well, come get food after you leave the Saucer,&#8221; texted the bartender.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to be wanted, and I will stop in Kooky very soon.\u00a0 However, before I even stepped out the door of my apartment pre-beer I had my stomach set on a West Coast Burger from Huey&#8217;s.\u00a0 I had one earlier this week, and tonight I wanted the same thing again, but as a turkey burger, with fries.\u00a0 When I walked in and ordered, the bartender asked, &#8220;Ranch instead of ketchup?&#8221;\u00a0 Which I had totally forgotten about, but that&#8217;s how I ordered the fries earlier in the week.\u00a0 Awesome suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how we can be in the Downtown of a metro area of over a million people, and yet this is truly the place where everyone knows your name.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t live anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Huey&#8217;s and Kooky for reminding me why I love this neighborhood so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the Saucer where Dos Equis Lager was the Fire Sale&#8230; and I had way too many of them. While there, I received a text from the bartender at Kooky Canuck.\u00a0 &#8220;Come down, ur friends are here,&#8221; said the text.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately I had a full beer, and by the time I finished it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/14\/this-kind-of-thing-is-why-im-proud-to-be-a-downtowner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This kind of thing is why I&#8217;m proud to be a Downtowner&#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\/5647"}],"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=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"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! -->