{"id":15583,"date":"2012-01-29T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=15583"},"modified":"2019-02-02T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T04:50:53","slug":"the-thirsty-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/01\/29\/the-thirsty-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thirsty Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Brew pub.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I stopped by the <a href=http:\/\/www.thirstybear.com\/ target=_blank>Thirsty Bear<\/a> the other day for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Rain threatened, so I drove.  Bad Idea.  Ever tried to park in San Francisco at lunch time with a big conference playing at the convention center?<\/p>\n<p>The pub is not much to look at from outside, but you come here for the beers, all brewed on site.  The crowd is distinctly up market and I found myself chatting at the bar with an attendee at the Moscone Center&#8217;s laser technology conference down the road.  A Cornell and Stanford grad, some 68 years old and working at Los Alamos in New Mexico where we make weapons of mass destruction, this vital and engaging companion proved a boon to a decent meal and pint, even if my IQ was a mere fraction of his!<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Thirsty_Bear1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Thiorsty_bear3.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Thirtsy_Bear2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The first on the G3 with the Oly 9-18mm at 9mm, the other two on the iPhone 4S.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed a Meyer ESB, subtler than is typical of the breed with a creamy head, with my chicken sandwich and fries.  The portions of the latter were nice and small, with no resulting bloat.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Thirsty_Bear4.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"388\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>$17.50 for the lot, and the barman serving me was polite, efficient and personable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brew pub. I stopped by the Thirsty Bear the other day for lunch. Rain threatened, so I drove. Bad Idea. Ever tried to park in San Francisco at lunch time with a big conference playing at the convention center? The pub is not much to look at from outside, but you come here for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/01\/29\/the-thirsty-bear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Thirsty Bear<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33366,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583\/revisions\/33366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}