{"id":444826,"date":"2026-09-23T05:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444826\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T05:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:26:08","slug":"more-than-80-teams-fire-up-the-smokers-for-lubbock-chambers-hub-city-bbq-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444826\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 80 teams fire up the smokers for Lubbock Chamber\u2019s Hub City BBQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Hub City BBQ is back in Lubbock, rolling out a fresh format aimed at supporting a local nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Organized by the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce, this year\u2019s event shifted to a member-focused format. The festivities kicked off with the \u201cRibs and Raiders\u201d dinner at Cook\u2019s Garage, serving up great food for a great cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Proceeds from the evening benefited High Point Village, a local community dedicated to enriching the lives of individuals with special needs. Attendees enjoyed live music, a charity auction, and barbecue crafted by 11 pitmasters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The celebration continues with the main cook-off, where more than 80 teams will face off across five distinct barbecue categories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event is exclusively open to members of the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Hub City BBQ is back in Lubbock, rolling out a fresh format aimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1960,68297,153577,56362,153575,168,7399,170,169,153576],"class_list":["post-444826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-bbq","tag-cook-off","tag-cooks-garage","tag-high-point-village","tag-hub-city-bbq","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-chamber-of-commerce","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-ribs-and-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}