{"id":8911,"date":"2012-03-06T08:36:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T14:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=8911"},"modified":"2012-03-06T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:36:48","slug":"session-62-announced-what-drives-beer-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-62-announced-what-drives-beer-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Session #62 announced: What Drives Beer Bloggers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Angelo at Brewpublic has announced the topic for The Session #62: <a href=\"http:\/\/brewpublic.com\/beer-blogs\/announcing-the-session-62-what-drives-beer-bloggers\/\">\u201cWhat Drives Beer Bloggers?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the obvious answer should be: A designated driver.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s get right to the navel gazing.<sup>1<\/sup> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your mission as a craft beverage blogger reading this post, should you choose to accept it, is to compose a post on the topic of \u201cWhat Drives Beer Bloggers.\u201d There are no rigid guidelines about how to write about this topic but we\u2019d certainly love to hear about the history behind your blog, your purpose in creating it, its evolution, and\/or what your goals in keeping it going.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The date is April 6. I might write about &#8220;10 things you might not know about Alan McLeod but I do because I read his <a href=\"http:\/\/beerblog.genx40.com\">blogs<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genx40.com\">plural<\/a>).&#8221; Or maybe the 10 cleverest lines in the history of Appellation Beer. Except they&#8217;d all be comments, and what would that tell you about me?<\/p>\n<p>More seriously, bloggers are an important part of a particular beer niche, one that sociologists will be studying for years to come. This should help them.<\/p>\n<p><font size=-2>1 For the record, references to navel gazing may or may not be intended as snark. But it has become standard in some of the blogging places I hang out to use the phrase to remind ourselves to write about beer rather than, blush, ourselves.<\/font>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angelo at Brewpublic has announced the topic for The Session #62: \u201cWhat Drives Beer Bloggers?&#8221; Yes, the obvious answer should be: A designated driver. But let&#8217;s get right to the navel gazing.1 Your mission as a craft beverage blogger reading this post, should you choose to accept it, is to compose a post on the &#8230; <a title=\"Session #62 announced: What Drives Beer Bloggers?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-62-announced-what-drives-beer-bloggers\/\" aria-label=\"More on Session #62 announced: What Drives Beer Bloggers?\">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-8911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2jJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911","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=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8921,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}