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<\/a><\/p>\nWhen I first saw it I thought they got the color wrong – it appeared to be black, the color for the people who have only been through the 200-beer Ring of Honor one time. But, as you can see in the photo above, it really is dark blue, the color for fourth-timers who have gone through 800 beers (and as Findlay pointed out, another 800 Dos Equis Lagers that didn’t count toward the plate).<\/p>\n
I had an entire year to forget that when it’s your birthday, people buy you shots. Feeling the effects this morning.<\/p>\n
Thanks to all my friends for making it a memorable night, and to Lauren for the delicious cupcakes from Muddy’s Bake Shop.<\/p>\n
Going to take a shower and see if that helps bring me back to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I made a very, very good decision. I decided that the day after my birthday should be a vacation day. On any birthday I believe this is a good idea, but especially when having a plate party on my birthday. Last night my fourth plate was unveiled: When I first saw it I thought they … Continue reading “A good decision”<\/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\/8308"}],"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=8308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8313,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}