{"id":343,"date":"2007-04-27T20:58:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T01:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2007-04-27T20:58:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T01:58:52","slug":"reach-out-and-liquor-up-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Reach Out And Liquor Up Someone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting idea, although I would NEVER think of buying my friends a round if I am not actually present while they enjoy it.  There is also the question of when I will get paid back?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MonkeyBites\/~3\/112482328\/reach_out_and_b.html\">Reach Out And Liquor Up Someone<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/04\/27\/buyfriends.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Buyfriends\" title=\"Buyfriends\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/04\/27\/buyfriends.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aptly named new web service, <a href=\"https:\/\/buyyourfriendadrink.com\/home.php\" title=\"BuyYourFriendaDrink.com\">BuyYourFriendaDrink.com<\/a>, allows users to do just that. If your friends are headed out tonight to celebrate, but you&rsquo;re stuck working late at the office, you can still spread the love by buying a round without even being in the room.<\/p>\n<p>To use BuyYourFriendaDrink you just need to enter your friend&rsquo;s mobile number and the amount of money you&rsquo;d like to let them spend (currently up to $250 if you&rsquo;re feeling extra generous). Your friend will then receive a text message with a redemption code.  <\/p>\n<p>Take that code to a participating bar and your friend can get a drink.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to the big catch &mdash; BuyYourFriendaDrink currently only works in New York City and a couple surrounding suburbs. And even in New York, the range of bar options is pretty slim.<\/p>\n<p>BuyYourFriendaDrink plans to expand soon into other northeastern cities and should arrive on the west coast in the second half of 2007. <\/p>\n<p>At which point I plan to spam this post to all the Wired editors. For testing purposes of course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/MonkeyBites?a=94yTrs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/MonkeyBites?i=94yTrs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MonkeyBites\/~4\/112482328\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/monkeybites\/\">MokneyBites<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting idea, although I would NEVER think of buying my friends a round if I am not actually present while they enjoy it. There is also the question of when I will get paid back? Reach Out And Liquor Up Someone: &#8220; The aptly named new web service, BuyYourFriendaDrink.com, allows users to do just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8MZA-5x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}