{"id":6031,"date":"2020-05-07T08:49:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:49:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:49:23","slug":"malibu-run-and-bombay-gin-a-case-in-deduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/malibu-run-and-bombay-gin-a-case-in-deduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Malibu Run and Bombay Gin: A Case in Deduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>I have been watching a lot of the classic <em>Sherlock Holmes<\/em> episodes starring Jeremy Brett (my favorite Holmes by far) and therefore get to see the detective&#8217;s process of deduction in action.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, I employed deduction trying\nto figure out the mystery of what kind of person(s) would litter\nfifth-size bottles of Bombay Gin and airplane bottles of Malibu Rum\n(coconut)<em> on both<\/em> sides of a rural road in an impoverished\nsection of coastal Oregon. During a Sunday walk I counted at least a\nhalf dozen of each type, but not exclusively one spirit on the same\nside of the road. In other words, the brands were mixed. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was utterly baffled first by the\nappearance of these bottles, one usually sees cans of Bud Light or\nmalt liquor, and their regular distribution pattern. Why on both\nsides of the road? Why Bombay and Malibu? One is expensive and\nprestigious. The other pedestrian and mid range sweet swill. Bombay\nGin and Malibu Rum are nearly opposites of each other. The former\nseems masculine to me, the latter, feminine. Both are typically\nconsumed with mixers of some kind, but it seems highly doubtful these\nwere consumed that way. I mean, you don&#8217;t mix a gin and tonic or rum\nand coke while you&#8217;re driving or walking. Or maybe you do! But there\nwere no mixer containers of any kind around. And indeed, were these\nbottles thrown from vehicles or simply discarded when emptied by a\nwalker or walkers? I&#8217;d really like to see someone walking take the\nlast swig from a bottle of Bombay and then just toss it on the ground\nand keep on walking. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is all of this related to the Corona\nVirus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later today I will take another walk\ndown this road and see if anything new develops. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been watching a lot of the classic Sherlock Holmes episodes starring Jeremy Brett (my favorite Holmes by far) and therefore get to see the detective&#8217;s process of deduction in action. Recently, I employed deduction trying to figure out the mystery of what kind of person(s) would litter fifth-size bottles of Bombay Gin and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6034,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions\/6034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}