{"id":7511,"date":"2010-08-07T10:13:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=7511"},"modified":"2010-08-07T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T15:13:57","slug":"congratulations-to-the-new-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/congratulations-to-the-new-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the new mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Mikey is to Calhoun’s what I am to the Saucer.\u00a0 He’s there every day.\u00a0 If he doesn’t show up at some point, people begin to worry that he’s sick.\u00a0 Or dead.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, Mikey got an iPhone.\u00a0 He saw how much fun we were having on Foursquare<\/a>, and downloaded the app.\u00a0 On Foursquare, you “check in” to venues as you are in them.\u00a0 If you check into a venue more than anyone else over a 2-month period, you become the mayor.\u00a0 So Mikey started checking in everywhere he went, and his checkins began to add up.\u00a0 Yesterday about 5 PM he checked into Calhoun’s… and that one was enough to oust the old mayor, Otto.<\/p>\n

Over the next week we will see a furious battle between Mikey and Otto to control the mayorship of Calhoun’s.\u00a0 Mikey will eventually win in the long run, but for a while we will be treated to an epic struggle between the two.\u00a0 Should be fun to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"