{"id":24396,"date":"2014-09-10T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T04:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24396"},"modified":"2014-09-09T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T21:06:51","slug":"qotd-smoking-and-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/qotd-smoking-and-drinking\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Smoking and drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Apart from all the other arguments, you&#8217;re a fool to smoke if you like the taste of drink. It isn&#8217;t the cigarette you smoke with your glass of wine or whisky that damages the taste of it it&#8217;s all the ones you smoked yesterday and the day before and last week. Your senses are chronically anaesthetized. Really, smokers could afford to consider what they&#8217;re certainly missing as well as what they&#8217;re in danger of getting.<\/p>\n<p>After much pondering I think I understand a basic reason why a glass of something reviving is so welcome in the early evening. Partly, of course, it&#8217;s just that, to revive, to relax, but its also a convenient way of becoming a slightly different person from your daytime self, less methodical, less calculating &mdash; however you put it, somebody different, and the prospect of that has helped to make the day tolerable. And, conversely, it&#8217;s not having that prospect that makes the day look grim to the poor old ex-boozer, more than missing the alcohol as such.<\/p>\n<p>Changing for dinner used to be another way of switching roles. Coming home from work has a touch of the same effect. Writers haven&#8217;t got that advantage &mdash; when they finish work they&#8217;re at home already. So perhaps they need that glass of gin extra badly. Any excuse is better than none. <\/p>\n<p>Kingsley Amis, <em>Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis<\/em>, 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from all the other arguments, you&#8217;re a fool to smoke if you like the taste of drink. It isn&#8217;t the cigarette you smoke with your glass of wine or whisky that damages the taste of it it&#8217;s all the ones you smoked yesterday and the day before and last week. Your senses are chronically [&hellip;]<\/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":[66,41,131],"tags":[104,134],"class_list":["post-24396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-quotations","category-wine","tag-booze","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6lu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396","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=24396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24397,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396\/revisions\/24397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}