{"id":587,"date":"2006-09-26T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=587"},"modified":"2006-09-26T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T11:28:00","slug":"root-beer-float-without-the-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/26\/root-beer-float-without-the-root\/","title":{"rendered":"Root beer float without the root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I got some Sudafed and brought my allergies under control, at least to some degree.  Feeling better, I headed to the Flying Saucer for Pint Nite.<\/p>\n<p>The waitresses were all oohing and aahing at an advance copy of the Saucer&#8217;s new menu.  Since I&#8217;m on friendly terms with them (well, almost all of them) they gave me a peek.<\/p>\n<p>One of the items is a variation on a root beer float, but without the &#8220;root.&#8221;  It&#8217;s chocolate ice cream and Young&#8217;s Double Chocolate beer.  Ummm.  Beer and ice cream.  I don&#8217;t know how I feel about that.  I guess I&#8217;ll keep an open mind and give it a try though.<\/p>\n<p>They also have Buffalo Bill&#8217;s Pumpkin Ale back in stock, in bottles.  That was one of my favorites last year.  Of course, I didn&#8217;t drink one last night because it&#8217;s sacrilege to order bottled beer on Pint Nite.  I&#8217;ll have one tonight when I go back for trivia night though.  Seasonal pumpkin ales make me wish it could be Halloween\/Thanksgiving season year &#8217;round.<\/p>\n<p>Time to pop a Sudafed and turn myself into Crackhead Paul and head to work.  I have more stuff to post, so look for a lunchtime update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I got some Sudafed and brought my allergies under control, at least to some degree. Feeling better, I headed to the Flying Saucer for Pint Nite. The waitresses were all oohing and aahing at an advance copy of the Saucer&#8217;s new menu. Since I&#8217;m on friendly terms with them (well, almost all of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/26\/root-beer-float-without-the-root\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Root beer float without the root&#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\/587"}],"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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"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! -->