{"id":7322,"date":"2014-07-25T13:14:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T01:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2014-07-25T13:14:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T01:14:56","slug":"station-ident-out-to-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/07\/25\/station-ident-out-to-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Station Ident: Out To Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Emerson's<\/a>
The set-up for a fantastically decadent Emerson’s Sunday Lunch at Little Beer Quarter, about which more soon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It seems I inadvertently supersized my GABS-related sabbatical and wound up taking two months off this here blogthing.1<\/sup><\/a><\/a> Such as happens from time to time, I suppose\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and such as is probably warranted and wise. But that’ll do. It’s dawned on me that it’s less than a month until Beervana, that Season 4 of the podcast is overdue for its d\u00e9but, and that I have a\u00a0lot<\/em> of half-finished rambles and things to talk about sitting around on my laptop. There’s no shortage of wonderful things happening in the beer business that deserve celebrating, and<\/em> (let’s face it, even after a healthful break, I’m still\u00a0me<\/em>) plenty of temper-spiking, rage-inducing bullshit in dire need of calling-out, too.<\/p>\n

Some Technical Difficulties were holding me back a little, as was an Obnoxiously Lingering Winter Lurgi; both now seem on the rapid wane, at last. A\u00a0few exciting new projects and Very Special Podcast Episodes are coming together, too, and will get fanfared in due course. So the lunchbreak \u2014 both metaphorical and literal, as I write this at work \u2014 is over.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>1:<\/strong> I kept myself vaguely occupied on Twitter<\/a> and on Beer Diary’s Facebook page<\/a>, meanwhile. If you’re after more short-form spur-of-the-moment stuff from me, those are always a good start.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems I inadvertently supersized my GABS-related sabbatical and wound up taking two months off this here blogthing.1 Such as happens from time to time, I suppose\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and such as is probably warranted and wise. But that’ll do. It’s dawned on me that it’s less than a month until Beervana, that Season 4 of the podcast … Continue reading Station Ident: Out To Lunch<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":600,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/11\/25\/three-boys-golden-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":7322,"position":0},"title":"Three Boys Golden Ale","author":"Phil","date":"November 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Pure summer gorgeousness. 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