{"id":9938,"date":"2013-06-23T00:20:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T05:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2013-06-23T00:20:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T05:20:49","slug":"i-love-meetings-in-emporia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=9938","title":{"rendered":"I Love Meetings in Emporia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love meetings in Emporia because it usually means lunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobbydsbbq.com\"  title=\"Bobby D's BBQ\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby D&#8217;s<\/a> and a trip to the Sweet Granada. Here are some pictures I took at lunch. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you guess which plate is mine?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9087445148\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5511\/9087445148_0d2f74b729.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9085243527\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3797\/9085243527_4cdf32c96e.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9085270995\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2811\/9085270995_0f6f855b91.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9085284777\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3773\/9085284777_74aee4be55.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left; padding-right:15px; padding-top:5px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/182\/1002648\/restaurant\/Kansas\/Bobby-Ds-BBQ-Emporia\" ><img alt=\"Bobby D&#x27;s BBQ on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1002648\/biglink.gif\" style=\"border:none;padding:0px;width:200px;height:146px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I can give you a hint. I didn&#8217;t order a salad. I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s good because I&#8217;ve yet to try anything at Bobby D&#8217;s that I didn&#8217;t like, but I know better than to order salad at a BBQ joint. <\/p>\n<p>I got the chicken fried steak. It was delicious. The breading was loaded with flavor. Actually, my whole meal was delicious. I didn&#8217;t even need to salt anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I will need to take Brian to this place so he can try it out for himself. I just know that he will love it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9090201318\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7330\/9090201318_b2eeb197c4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9087663984\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3828\/9087663984_c41c2978ef.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before heading back to Wichita we stopped by my favorite place in all of Emporia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetgranada.com\"  title=\"The Sweet Granada\" target=\"_blank\">the Sweet Granada<\/a>. It had been over a year since my last visit. Since I only get to go about once every year or so, I always have to indulge.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9085467185\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pic\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3798\/9085467185_bb7e91c360.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t indulge as much as Darcy though. She bought about $50 worth.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9087702578\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5467\/9087702578_0a93d7857d.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9087728838\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pic\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5469\/9087728838_160bd55631.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent about $35, but I was sharing with Brian.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9086978593\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5548\/9086978593_23f6f23f58_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I surprised him with the chocolates after work that day. I got a couple of the chocolate and caramel covered pretzels &#8212; one for each of us.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9089216650\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3810\/9089216650_0a4097a5ca.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also got a few of their delicious truffles.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9089206812\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7445\/9089206812_cfe5091f33.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally I got a dogwood bark. I had it the other day. It was very good. I&#8217;m going to have to get more of those on my next trip (which is probably a year from now). LOL.<\/p>\n<p>I wish we had more meetings in Emporia. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love meetings in Emporia because it usually means lunch at Bobby D&#8217;s and a trip to the Sweet Granada. Here are some pictures I took at lunch. Can you guess which plate is mine? I can give you a hint. I didn&#8217;t order a salad. I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s good because I&#8217;ve yet to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[62,1765,394,1764,2475,2132,1766,1767,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938"}],"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=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9944,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions\/9944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}