{"id":776,"date":"2005-09-06T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/06\/the-lost-art-of-boozing\/"},"modified":"2005-09-06T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T12:48:00","slug":"the-lost-art-of-boozing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/the-lost-art-of-boozing\/","title":{"rendered":"The lost art of boozing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,3604,1563777,00.html\">&#8220;Were they the sons of tea-sippers who won the fields of Crecy and Agincourt or dyed the Danube&#8217;s shores with Gallic blood?&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; a stirring defence of the lost art of drinking in this age of bizarre government policies of expanding drinking hours while simultaneously trying to (partially) <a href=\"http:\/\/timworstall.typepad.com\/timworstall\/2005\/09\/the_smoking_ban.html\">ban one of the very things which goes hand in hand with a nice pint<\/a> &#8211; or at least force people who want to drink and smoke (a decent proportion of regular pubgoers) to go to an establishment which doesn&#8217;t serve food, meaning they&#8217;ll get more pissed and more lary. Nice one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drunkenness is an attribute of those who do not appreciate what they are consuming, not of those who do.&#8221; Too bloody right. If you drink watery, tasteless, overly fizzy British or American style lager or (shudder) sugar-laden alcopops rather than decent Belgian brews or (best of all) a hearty pint of rich, mahogany hued real ale, you&#8217;re automatically a soft-cock lightweight pissant. But it also makes you more of an antisocial wanker. Fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Were they the sons of tea-sippers who won the fields of Crecy and Agincourt or dyed the Danube&#8217;s shores with Gallic blood?&#8221; &#8211; a stirring defence of the lost art of drinking in this age of bizarre government policies of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/the-lost-art-of-boozing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}