{"id":2084,"date":"2009-12-10T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T12:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2009-12-10T09:54:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T13:54:28","slug":"on-a-cosmic-scale-this-is-still-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/10\/on-a-cosmic-scale-this-is-still-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"On a cosmic scale, this is still a bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last Ontario Wine Review<\/a> for 2009, Michael has a short rant on a rant-worthy topic:<\/p>\n

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South Africa has tar; Chile has mint; Australia, eucalyptus; Ontario: baby-poo<\/strong> . . . It\u2019s quite possible that next time you wander into an Ontario winery you may be confronted by a \u2018child-friendly-winery\u2019 thanks to a website called JustTheFactsBaby.com. Now who really thinks having toddlers (or infants) along in a winery is a good idea? Honestly? There are so many reasons why not that I\u2019m surprised that somebody has actually deemed this to be a good idea. For Godsakes, where\u2019s MADD when you need them? I don\u2019t have time to argue this one out again, especially in this short-rant forum, so I\u2019ll begin here with my top three reasons and then you can input your views to me in an email. #1 — With all the talk about, and new laws against, drinking and driving and the safety of people and children on the road (heck you can\u2019t smoke in a car with your child), I\u2019m shocked somebody would offer up this idea that mom should get out there and sample wine with junior in tow (Is this the newest version of the Rolling Stones \u201cMother\u2019s Little Helper\u201d?) #2 — Who amongst us really wants to see toddlers running around playing tag in and amongst the bottles of wine and stemware displays; can you say \u2018disaster waiting to happen\u2019. #3 — With the whole world turning politically correct and wanting to include more people in more places, wineries should still be a sanctuary for adults. There are so many kid-centric and family oriented things to do in this world, shouldn\u2019t a winery be a bastion where adults can congregate and still talk about adult things without hearing, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, did junior bump into you, I\u2019m sure that won\u2019t stain, at home we use \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last Ontario Wine Review for 2009, Michael has a short rant on a rant-worthy topic: South Africa has tar; Chile has mint; Australia, eucalyptus; Ontario: baby-poo . . . It\u2019s quite possible that next time you wander into an Ontario winery you may be confronted by a \u2018child-friendly-winery\u2019 thanks to a website called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,131],"tags":[52,87],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-wine","tag-absurd","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-xC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}