{"id":40865,"date":"2012-09-03T14:16:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T19:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebarnlight.com\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2020-06-22T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T19:31:12","slug":"barn-lights-and-bbq-mean-its-time-for-football-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/barn-lights-and-bbq-mean-its-time-for-football-in-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Barn Lights and BBQ Mean It&#8217;s Time for Football in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College football season has finally arrived and all across the south, that&#8217;s cause for celebration! The Southeastern Conference is home to some of the best teams in NCAA football, and there are long and storied rivalries playing out every Saturday in places like Death Valley, Between the Hedges, and\u00a0in the Swamp. In Knoxville, Tennessee, home of the Volunteers, football season is prime tailgating time which includes not only\u00a0the back-of-the-pickup variety but those tailgaters who float to the stadium down the Tennessee River and make up the Vol Navy. Barbeque is a standby for tailgating and Vol fans love the tailgate menu from Dead End BBQ, a great restaurant near campus with classic <strong><a title=\"barn lighting\" href=\"\/inspiration\/pendant-lighting\/barn-pendant-lights\/\">barn lighting<\/a><\/strong>, orange-drenched walls, and plenty of Tennessee memorabilia. It&#8217;s a popular spot before the game and after the final whistle too.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/barn-lights-and-bbq-mean-its-time-for-football-in-the-south\/#more-40865\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College football season has finally arrived and all across the south, that&#8217;s cause for celebration! The Southeastern Conference is home to some of the best teams in NCAA football, and there are long and storied rivalries playing out every Saturday in places like Death Valley, Between the Hedges, and\u00a0in the Swamp. In Knoxville, Tennessee, home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":40742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5305,5437],"tags":[5377],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65811,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865\/revisions\/65811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}