{"id":5580,"date":"2011-04-06T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2011-04-06T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T13:00:02","slug":"legendary-birmingham-hot-dog-man-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=5580","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Birmingham Hot Dog Man Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Constantine Koutroulakis,\u00a0 known to most\u00a0 as Gus, was found dead Tuesday morning\u00a0 at his\u00a0 home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The previous day, the 81-year-old Koutroulakis worked his day long shift, just as he had for 63 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He operated<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2009\/06\/birmingham-al-petes\/\"> Pete&#8217;s Hot Dogs in Birmingham<\/a>, which I visited a couple years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No word on the fate of the shop.\u00a0 Gus frequently said that &#8220;when he&#8217;s gone, it&#8217;s gone,&#8221; and reportedly no one knew the secret sauce recipe, but the master himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5581\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Petes2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5581 \" title=\"Pete's Birmingham\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Petes2.jpg\" alt=\"Pete's Birmingham\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete&#39;s Birmingham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constantine Koutroulakis,\u00a0 known to most\u00a0 as Gus, was found dead Tuesday morning\u00a0 at his\u00a0 home. The previous day, the 81-year-old Koutroulakis worked his day long shift, just as he had for 63 years. He operated Pete&#8217;s Hot Dogs in Birmingham, which I visited a couple years ago. No word on the fate of the shop.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=5580\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legendary Birmingham Hot Dog Man Passes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,16,34],"tags":[668,2621,2622],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}