{"id":39,"date":"2006-04-11T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/wordpress\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-03-15T18:40:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T23:40:34","slug":"beer-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/11\/beer-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~ian.cowpar\/images\/ianpost.jpg\" alt=\"ian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So for some unknown reason, I decided this past Saturday to take a hiatus from beer for two weeks. There are several compelling reasons for this, but I&#8217;m just not sure what the real one is.<\/p>\n<p>One possible explanation is that as we approach our 100th review, I need to rest my liver in preparation for the next hundred.<\/p>\n<p>Another is that, as the saying goes, &#8220;you don&#8217;t know what you got til it&#8217;s gone.&#8221; Not that I don&#8217;t have a fine appreciation for beer, but if I take some time away from it, I might appreciate it that much more.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I suppose it could just be a good old purging of the system. Doubtful, but possible.<\/p>\n<p>Now I know I&#8217;m not addicted to alcohol. But I may very well be addicted to craft beer as an alternative to other less satisfying brews. It&#8217;s only been three days, and I&#8217;m already yearning for the bitter kick of hops and the mellow smoothness of malts. Good thing the Red Sox are opening at home today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So for some unknown reason, I decided this past Saturday to take a hiatus from beer for two weeks. There are several compelling reasons for this, but I&#8217;m just not sure what the real one is. One possible explanation is that as we approach our 100th review, I need to rest my liver in preparation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,88],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ianpost.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}