{"id":7115,"date":"2021-06-22T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7115"},"modified":"2021-06-22T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:24:09","slug":"fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/fathers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Father&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7115\" data-postid=\"7115\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7115 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I waited in line at the liquor store on Father&#8217;s Day. A young man stood in front of me. I was stocking up for the upcoming Nestucca Spit Press Outdoor Gin, Literature and Squirrel Festival and carried a green bottle of Tanqueray in my hand. I stick to the classics with gin. If Tanqueray could inspire Graham Greene to write 500 words a day as a reward and make it into an immortal Amy Winehouse song, then this dry gin was good enough for me. I don&#8217;t want botanicals, infusions and gimcrack recipes for gin. It&#8217;s like slathering salmon with sauces and glazes. Do you like the taste of salmon or not? I happen to like the taste of gin so let gin be gin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young man stepped up to the counter. He ordered a mini bottle of Fireball, cinnamon flavored swill whiskey. He struck up a conversation with the clerk. They knew each other. He was a regular. But this order was irregular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s Father&#8217;s Day,\u201d he said. \u201cI have to see my dad. He raised the bottle to his mouth and took a fake glug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clerk laughed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought: surely one shot of Fireball wasn&#8217;t going to be enough.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I waited in line at the liquor store on Father&#8217;s Day. A young man stood in front of me. I was stocking up for the upcoming Nestucca Spit Press Outdoor Gin, Literature and Squirrel Festival and carried a green bottle of Tanqueray in my hand. I stick to the classics with gin. If Tanqueray could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7115","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\/7115","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=7115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7117,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions\/7117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}