{"id":554,"date":"2008-07-24T13:01:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T17:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2008-07-24T13:01:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T17:01:27","slug":"celebrate-brothers-day-august-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/24\/celebrate-brothers-day-august-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Brother&#8217;s Day &#8211; August 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Widmer&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/forblog\/widmer.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"181\" height=\"236\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a day to celebrate moms, dads, grandparents, and even Irishness, but what about brothers?<\/p>\n<p>Brothers are a proud clan. They flush each others\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 G.I. Joe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s down the toilet, they sucker punch each other and run away claiming self defense, and when they \u00e2\u20ac\u0153grow up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they drink lots of great craft beer. Kurt and Rob Widmer, being the proud, hard working, craft beer making\/guzzling brothers that they are, took this matter into their own hands. Turns out the hard work paid off \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Portland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mayor Tom Potter agrees that brothers should have their own day, and is proclaiming August 11th to be Brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day in the City of Roses (prost to that)!<\/p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more good news \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Widmer has partnered with Big Brothers Big Sisters Columbia Northwest to raise money in support of kids who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so lucky to have a cool (and obnoxious) big brother in their life. You can celebrate your brother and raise money for BBBS at the same time by sending an awesomely hilarious Brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day e-card from the Widmer Brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day Web site \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for every card sent $1 will be donated.<\/p>\n<p>Want more Brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day details? Have questions about the Widmer brothers or their fine brews? Shoot me an email and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be happy to provide more information.<\/p>\n<p>Prost to brothers!<\/p>\n<p>Sam<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a blood brother; military brothers, fraternity brothers, and even \u00e2\u20ac\u0153brothers from other mothers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are invited to celebrate the special day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"xx\">Widmer Brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day Web site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Widmer&#8230; There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a day to celebrate moms, dads, grandparents, and even Irishness, but what about brothers? Brothers are a proud clan. They flush each others\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 G.I. Joe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s down the toilet, they sucker punch each other and run away claiming self defense, and when they \u00e2\u20ac\u0153grow up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they drink lots of great craft beer. Kurt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,112,69],"tags":[261,262,260],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/widmer.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}