{"id":9063,"date":"2013-05-18T07:51:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T14:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=9063"},"modified":"2013-05-18T07:51:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T14:51:21","slug":"superior-wi-thirsty-pagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=9063","title":{"rendered":"Superior, WI &#8211; The Thirsty Pagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We used to call it \u201csoup town\u201d tho I have no knowledge as to why.\u00a0 My best memories of Superior is that it was a bridge away from my home town, and for a period, had a legal drinking age of 18.\u00a0 We used to frequent one particular bar, and a glass of beer was 15 cents, and a mixed drink was 45 cents.\u00a0 Yes, you read that right.<\/p>\n<p>The bar was called Tommy Byrnes, and it\u2019s long gone, and so are those kind of prices in these days of fancy pants infused spirits and microbrew beers.\u00a0 I don\u2019t drink much, so it doesn\u2019t really bother me that there are $16 cocktails in an awful lot of places.<\/p>\n<p>Kawika and I hit the Thirsty Pagan after a drive out in the country to catch another set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toddeckart.com\/\">Todd Eckart<\/a>, crooner extraordinare.<\/p>\n<p>We ordered a pizza with the works on it, sausage, pepperoni, onions, mushroom, peppers, which was a wide variation off the pizza path for us.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a thicker crust, with a buttery flavor, quality toppings, and premium priced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130511_214458.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9064\" alt=\"20130511_214458\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130511_214458.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/129\/1412762\/restaurant\/Duluth\/Thirsty-Pagan-Brewpub-Superior\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thirsty Pagan Brewpub on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1412762\/biglink.gif\" style=\"border:none;padding:0px;width:200px;height:146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We used to call it \u201csoup town\u201d tho I have no knowledge as to why.\u00a0 My best memories of Superior is that it was a bridge away from my home town, and for a period, had a legal drinking age of 18.\u00a0 We used to frequent one particular bar, and a glass of beer was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=9063\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Superior, WI &#8211; The Thirsty Pagan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,16,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063"}],"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=9063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}