{"id":1680,"date":"2014-02-19T06:15:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T12:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2014-02-19T06:15:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T12:15:18","slug":"time-to-vote-birmingham-americas-favorite-food-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2014\/02\/19\/time-to-vote-birmingham-americas-favorite-food-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to vote Birmingham America&#8217;s Favorite Food City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 8px\" alt=\"fwcover\" src=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/02\/fwcover.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"205\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/\">Food &amp; Wine Magazine<\/a> announced late last month that it would be inviting the public to vote in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/articles\/americas-favorite-food-cities\">its first-ever America&#8217;s Favorite Food Cities survey<\/a>. The Magic City is competing against 39 other worthy contenders and the winners will be unveiled in the publication&#8217;s September 2014 issue.\u00a0If you think Birmingham, AL has the &#8220;most family-friendly,&#8221; &#8220;most pompous foodies&#8221; or &#8220;best-looking bartenders,&#8221; you need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/articles\/americas-favorite-food-cities\">head over to the magazine&#8217;s website and cast your vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We have until April 30 to cast our votes, but why wait? It&#8217;s only 25 questions and they let you re-take it if you&#8217;re not happy with your answers (or if you want to get in one more virtual ballot). One thing to consider though, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodanddine.com\/vote-for-louisville-in-food-and-wines-first-ever-americas-favorite-food-cities-survey\/\">as eloquently pointed out on the website for Louisville&#8217;s edition of\u00a0<em>Food and Dining<\/em>\u00a0magazine earlier this month<\/a>, participants realize it&#8217;s not just another popularity contest but a chance to respond honestly about the cities from which the magazine&#8217;s editors want us to pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2014\/02\/19\/time-to-vote-birmingham-americas-favorite-food-city\/\"><\/a><p>It&#8217;s time for another opportunity to vote online as a way to garner attention for Birmingham&#8217;s food scene. A few clicks into this Food &amp; Wine poll though and you realize it&#8217;s not just going to be as simple as clicking Birmingham as the answer to every question &#8211; especially considering the competition. <a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2014\/02\/19\/time-to-vote-birmingham-americas-favorite-food-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4PdO-r6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}