{"id":26077,"date":"2014-06-01T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26077"},"modified":"2014-05-31T17:33:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T22:33:27","slug":"qotd-the-fine-art-of-whisky-snobbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/01\/qotd-the-fine-art-of-whisky-snobbery\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The fine art of whisky snobbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>These days your host might offer you a malt whisky almost any time. If he&#8217;s mad enough to offer you ice, or better still, drop it in unasked, you get bonus points for the way you manage to restrain your horror at the fellow&#8217;s barbarism. When you finally taste the stuff, say, &#8220;Ah, the old Glencluskie. Magnificent, but not what it was. It&#8217;s this damned Canadian barley. Too much starch, not enough protein and fat. Thank heaven there&#8217;s still some peat in the kilning.&#8221; All very well today, but on present trends there&#8217;ll soon be whisky snobs fit to compare with any wine snobs of yesteryear.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsley Amis, <em>Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis<\/em>, 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days your host might offer you a malt whisky almost any time. If he&#8217;s mad enough to offer you ice, or better still, drop it in unasked, you get bonus points for the way you manage to restrain your horror at the fellow&#8217;s barbarism. When you finally taste the stuff, say, &#8220;Ah, the old [&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":[57,41],"tags":[104,338,907],"class_list":["post-26077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-booze","tag-scotland","tag-snobbery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6MB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26077","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=26077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26078,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26077\/revisions\/26078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}