{"id":12894,"date":"2016-08-10T14:13:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/cut-the-cubicle-cord-how-the-owner-of-cardiff-giant-turned-volunteering-into-opening-his-own-bar\/"},"modified":"2016-08-10T14:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:13:05","slug":"cut-the-cubicle-cord-how-the-owner-of-cardiff-giant-turned-volunteering-into-opening-his-own-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/cut-the-cubicle-cord-how-the-owner-of-cardiff-giant-turned-volunteering-into-opening-his-own-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut the cubicle cord: How the owner of Cardiff Giant turned volunteering into opening his own bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Baird opened Cardiff Giant in March of this year, after learning the ropes at Mission Dolores and Owl Farm. All photos by Brianna Digioia. Honestly, if you had to take a shot for all the times you or a friend have said, \u201cMan, we should open a bar!\u201d how drunk would you be? Most of us have had this dream, usually as we\u2019re sitting at a bar, likely after spending eight sad hours sitting under some harsh overhead lighting in standard-issue desk chair in front of an equally harsh computer screen. But should you really? You have no idea how to run a bar. Being good at drinking does not make you good at running a drinking establishment. The only applicable experience you might have was pouring pitchers of PBR in college (sorry, fellas, stirring up some cocktails at a house party doesn\u2019t count). So you order another beer, go home, and&hellip; Read More<\/p>\n<p>Cut the cubicle cord: How the owner of Cardiff Giant turned volunteering into opening his own bar : <a href=\"http:\/\/brokelyn.com\/cardiff-giant-steven-baird\/\">Brokelyn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Baird opened Cardiff Giant in March of this year, after learning the ropes at Mission Dolores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":12895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2729],"class_list":["post-12894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-brokelyn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - 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