{"id":21630,"date":"2019-11-13T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T22:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=21630"},"modified":"2019-11-05T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T18:44:56","slug":"fight-night-at-the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=21630","title":{"rendered":"Fight Night at the Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got to have a mini reunion with our #VacayWithJayJay buds a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/48927160762\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48927160762_6e7b0048b5.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><big><em>Clockwise from left:<\/em> Alicia, Kirk, Mark, Brian, Becca, Tina, Justin, me, Jay and Reniece.<\/big><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was my first live fight ever. I&#8217;ve only ever seen them on TV. I was kind of glad that we were at the Fire Club above the arena so we were far away from the ring. I don&#8217;t know how I would have handled all the fluids flying about during the fight.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/48927247132\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48927247132_03c64e0bb0.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a group photo we took that shows our vantage point. <em>From left:<\/em> the Shooks (Reniece and Mark), the Hunties (Justin and Tina), Becca, the Shorts (Alicia and Kirk)&#8230; I&#8217;m not quite sure who that guy is on the very right. We might have gotten introduced that night but I can&#8217;t remember. The big head front and center is Jay. Brian and I are in the upper left corner.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/48927160632\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48927160632_6c5fbbb290.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We might have been farther away but we had a great view.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/48926799447\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48926799447_5409557e8c.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/48926800242\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48926800242_5f9e0a3c9f.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only was it my first live fight, but it was also our first time at the Fire Club. It&#8217;s pretty cool up there.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/48926025723\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48926025723_2107b58bd0.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely the way to watch events at the Kansas Star Casino arena. Putting it on my list of things to consider for the next concert that comes through.<\/p>\n<p>It was nice to be able to catch up with our #VacayWithJayJay group who we got to spend a lot of time with in Costa Rica earlier this year. Incidentally, we are traveling with the Hunties and the Dills again this week. Vacationing with friends is the best.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post our trip recap when we&#8217;re back stateside. Until then, GNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got to have a mini reunion with our #VacayWithJayJay buds a few weeks ago. Clockwise from left: Alicia, Kirk, Mark, Brian, Becca, Tina, Justin, me, Jay and Reniece. This was my first live fight ever. I&#8217;ve only ever seen them on TV. I was kind of glad that we were at the Fire Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1340],"tags":[1359,1243,191,2067],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21630"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21642,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630\/revisions\/21642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}