{"id":9882,"date":"2011-05-21T20:03:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T01:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=9882"},"modified":"2011-05-21T20:26:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T01:26:24","slug":"do-not-waste-your-time-on-the-great-food-truck-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/21\/do-not-waste-your-time-on-the-great-food-truck-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not waste your time on the Great Food Truck Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They said yesterday they&#8217;d be set up today by noon.<\/p>\n<p>It was 3 before we even saw a truck.<\/p>\n<p>It was after 4:30 before they were selling.<\/p>\n<p>I got in line at one truck at 7:15.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing, because at 7:30, the host told them they could only sell vegetarian to keep it fair among the teams. So the team&#8217;s truck I was at was selling French fries for $15 with a side of uncooked meat for free.<\/p>\n<p>FAIL.<\/p>\n<p>This contest is bullshit. Get the fuck out of Memphis. I hope this does not turn out to be a reflection on the local food trucks.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a classic example how to overpromise and underdeliver, look no farther than this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>(Edit: Just to make it clear, I blame the show&#8217;s producers, not any individual team.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They said yesterday they&#8217;d be set up today by noon. It was 3 before we even saw a truck. It was after 4:30 before they were selling. I got in line at one truck at 7:15. Good thing, because at 7:30, the host told them they could only sell vegetarian to keep it fair among &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/21\/do-not-waste-your-time-on-the-great-food-truck-race\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do not waste your time on the Great Food Truck Race&#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\/9882"}],"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=9882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9886,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882\/revisions\/9886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9882"}],"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! -->