{"id":1032,"date":"2015-05-02T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T22:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2015-05-04T06:36:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:36:31","slug":"nablopomo-day-2-your-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/nablopomo-day-2-your-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"NaBloPoMo Day 2: Your Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"4\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/06fm6yyqVz\/\" target=\"_top\">When you&#8217;re in love with a beautiful woman&#8230; you watch your friends&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Jason Edwards (@bukkhead) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2015-04-01T01:31:40+00:00\">Mar 31, 2015 at 6:31pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m 43. I don&#8217;t know if I have any passions. Or if I do, I have lots of little ones. Beer is one. I <em>really<\/em> like beer. Am an I alcoholic? Well, I&#8217;m certainly trying to be one. It&#8217;s tough though&#8230; I like beer, but I can&#8217;t drink it every day. Maybe one or two a week. Of course there&#8217;s Tuesdays, when I hang out with friends at a bar. I can manage two beers then, usually.<\/p>\n<p>We sit at a table and they order food (I usually cook something with the wife before I give her a night to herself in the house) and we talk about the stupidest things. And we laugh. The waitstaff know us. We&#8217;re good tippers. The owner knows us. He bring exotic beer samples.<\/p>\n<p>I tend towards the Pale Ales, although I&#8217;ll down an IPA if I&#8217;m in the mood. I used to be strictly Lagers and Pilsners, but too few breweries get them right. But the ones that do? I&#8217;ll have three or four, please! Often I&#8217;ll go with a Brown Ale, and if I&#8217;m hanging with an enthusiast, I&#8217;ll share a Porter or a Stout. I even know how to drink sours and saisons: let &#8217;em get warm.<\/p>\n<p>I like beer after a long run (or a short run, I won&#8217;t lie). While the ball game&#8217;s on the radio and I&#8217;m burning something on the grill. In between mowing the front yard and the backyard. A beer during Christmas dinner is nice. My wife and I like to vacation in tropical places, and a tall frosty glass in a little place with a deck by the beach&#8230; it can make up for a whole year of heart ache.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t really drink beer when I&#8217;m playing video games (I forget and the beer gets warm) or when I&#8217;m reading a book (I got idle hands and I drink the darn thing too fast) or if I&#8217;m at the computer doing some writing (I&#8217;ll lose my train of through If I get dragged to the bathroom too often). So, beer&#8217;s not my only passion.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s one of them. And it&#8217;s Mariners at Astros in 10 minutes. Perfect timing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re in love with a beautiful woman&#8230; you watch your friends&#8230; A photo posted by Jason Edwards (@bukkhead) on Mar 31, 2015 at 6:31pm PDT I&#8217;m 43. I don&#8217;t know if I have any passions. Or if I do, I have lots of little ones. Beer is one. I really like beer. Am an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/nablopomo-day-2-your-passion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NaBloPoMo Day 2: Your Passion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,7,52],"tags":[27,51],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-life","category-nablopomo","tag-beer","tag-nablopomo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-gE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}