{"id":284,"date":"2010-03-13T23:45:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T04:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2010-03-18T23:53:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T04:53:36","slug":"aba-bbq-lake-lanier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"ABA BBQ @ Lake Lanier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first BBQ contest judging of the year (and Melanie&#8217;s 15th overall) was at the American Bass Anglers event at Lake Lanier, Georgia.  The setting on the lake was pretty nice and realistically you&#8217;d never know this was also a bass fishing tournament since the boats were all out on the lake most of the day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-285\" title=\"IMG_0691\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0691.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Lanier BBQ\" width=\"444\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0691.jpg 444w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0691-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Lanier BBQ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just in case any competition teams happen to read this, we&#8217;d like to share our newest BBQ pet peeve:  chicken thighs smoked in muffin pans.  Myron Mixon did this on national TV and now everyone thinks it&#8217;s a great idea.  For one, they come out looking like chicken balls which is not the most appetizing form of chicken.  Second, it doesn&#8217;t seem to pick up any smoke flavor whatsoever.  We&#8217;re not saying this couldn&#8217;t be done well but 50% of our respective entries at this contest were in muffin form (compared to about 2% in the past).   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first BBQ contest judging of the year (and Melanie&#8217;s 15th overall) was at the American Bass Anglers event at Lake Lanier, Georgia. The setting on the lake was pretty nice and realistically you&#8217;d never know this was also a bass fishing tournament since the boats were all out on the lake most of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABA BBQ @ Lake Lanier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbeque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}