{"id":686,"date":"2007-08-03T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2007-08-03T05:00:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T09:00:39","slug":"friday-open-thread-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2007\/08\/03\/friday-open-thread-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday.  And tonight is the big clambake for my department, which should be OK, I guess.  Ordinarily, I&#8217;d get hammered, but I reckon that wouldn&#8217;t be a great career move.  Plus, I have to drive, so that wouldn&#8217;t work out at all.  I also don&#8217;t much care for crappy beer in plastic cups.  I&#8217;ve gotten rather snobbish these days.  If it&#8217;s not my own beer, I much prefer Middle Ages Brewery&#8217;s Impaled Ale.  And I only drink beer from a frozen mug.  <\/p>\n<p>Turns out, I love beer.  No, not that I really like to drink it (though I do), but that I feel real affection for the stuff.  Especially since I started brewing it myself.  It&#8217;s a living, breathing entity, and I feel true affection for it.  I understand why Ben Franklin said &#8220;beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy.&#8221;  Hey, give me a break.  It&#8217;s pretty much all I&#8217;ve got these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday. And tonight is the big clambake for my department, which should be OK, I guess. Ordinarily, I&#8217;d get hammered, but I reckon that wouldn&#8217;t be a great career move. Plus, I have to drive, so that wouldn&#8217;t work out at all. I also don&#8217;t much care for crappy beer in plastic cups. I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}