{"id":2842,"date":"2010-01-04T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T15:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2010-01-04T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T15:41:45","slug":"monday-musing-so-long-to-a-great-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-musing-so-long-to-a-great-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday musing: So long to a great blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions to consider on a Monday morning: Is there life after beer blogging? What trend did Rock Art Brewery set? <\/p>\n<li>Jeff Bell authored <a href=\"http:\/\/stonch.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/last-post.html\">The Last Post<\/a> at <strong>Stonch&#8217;s Beer Blog<\/strong> yesterday. As you can see from the comments that follow he will be missed. Keeping up with <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/UKBeerBloggers\">UK beer blogs<\/a> consumes more of my time each day, and I blame Jeff.<\/li>\n<li>Not sure that 293 votes constitutes a mandate from a &#8220;Beer Nation&#8221; but a poll at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usabeertrends.com\/?p=524\">USABeerTrends<\/a> indicates that <strong>Rock Art Brewery<\/strong> was the <strong>No. 1 craft beer trendsetter<\/strong> in 2009. <strong>Ska Brewing<\/strong> in Colorado finished second.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best beer related gift ever?<\/strong> A quilt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmonroe.com\/beer\/2009\/12\/best-beer-related-christmas-gift-ever\/\">made from beer T-shirts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>What country was this man returning to? <a href=\"http:\/\/potablecurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/i-didnt-to-to-bavaria-for-salad-you.html\">&#8220;Yep. Back home again, in brain-dead beer land.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><code>&nbsp;<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions to consider on a Monday morning: Is there life after beer blogging? What trend did Rock Art Brewery set? Jeff Bell authored The Last Post at Stonch&#8217;s Beer Blog yesterday. As you can see from the comments that follow he will be missed. Keeping up with UK beer blogs consumes more of my time &#8230; <a title=\"Monday musing: So long to a great blog\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-musing-so-long-to-a-great-blog\/\" aria-label=\"More on Monday musing: So long to a great blog\">Read more<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-JQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}