{"id":790,"date":"2013-01-30T12:44:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=790"},"modified":"2013-01-30T12:47:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:47:56","slug":"serious-ly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Serious? Ly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m a bit late on commenting on the Dewar&#8217;s ad. I had to go in to work early this morning, and somehow the conversation turned to wines. I thought I would make it a little more low-brow, so I introduced Night Train. My interest was piqued, and when I got home, I sought more information on such oenophilic delights. As I have the attention span of a toddler, I followed a number of different paths until I ran into the aforementioned: <\/p>\n<p><embed src='http:\/\/media.prnewswire.com\/FlexPlayer\/jwplayer\/player.swf' height='288' width='512' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' flashvars=\"&#038;controlbar=over&#038;file=http%3A%2F%2Forigin-qps.onstreammedia.com%2Forigin%2Fmultivu_archive%2FPRNA%2FENR%2FFX-NY03547-20121101-01.mp4&#038;image=http%3A%2F%2Forigin-qps.onstreammedia.com%2Forigin%2Fmultivu_archive%2FPRNA%2FENR%2FFX-NY03547-20121101-01_10s.jpg&#038;plugins=viral-2h&#038;skin=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.prnewswire.com%2FFlexPlayer%2Fjwplayer%2Fskin%2Fen.xml&#038;viral.description=This%20is%20the%20video%20description&#038;viral.functions=share%2Cembed&#038;viral.pluginmode=FLASH&#038;viral.title=This%20is%20the%20video%20title\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dewar&#8217;s Scotch claims to be for &#8220;serious&#8221; drinkers. Maybe it&#8217;s the cynic in me, but I when I think of &#8220;serious&#8221; drinkers, the starting point of my Google soujourn is what comes to mind:<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_793\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bumwines1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bumwines1.jpg\" alt=\"via Bum Wines\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bumwines1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bumwines1-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bumwines1-368x300.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumwine.com\/\">Bum Wines<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m a bit late on commenting on the Dewar&#8217;s ad. I had to go in to work early this morning, and somehow the conversation turned to wines. I thought I would make it a little more low-brow, so I introduced Night Train. My interest was piqued, and when I got home, I sought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}