{"id":1237,"date":"2008-03-17T21:24:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1237"},"modified":"2008-03-17T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T02:24:25","slug":"ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1237","title":{"rendered":"Ouch…"},"content":{"rendered":"

From SLOG just now<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Holidays in America, even those that originate elsewhere, fall under three basic categories: eat-meat holidays, devour-candy holidays, and quaff-liquor holidays. We will call the last category—which includes New Year’s Eve, Cinco De Mayo, and St. Patrick’s Day—the “alcoholidays<\/strong>.” Most Americans associate these wonderful times primarily with drunkenness.<\/p>\n

Other holidays may be associated with drinking, too. But the drinking is secondary. For instance, Independence Day is a drink-liquor-and-eat-hot-dogs holiday; Valentine’s Day is a drink-liquor-and-cry-into-your-pillow holiday. <\/strong>Memorial and Labor Days are foremost about working, dying, and barbequing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine…)  Yes…okay…  In that case I’d have to say Valentine’s Day Is<\/em> one of the Alcoholidays.   It certainly is for me.  So…can we move on to something a little less stressful and more cheerful?  Like…oh…Income Tax Day?  I filed Single again this year too…but that’s okay.  If I had a same sex spouse I’d still have to file as single…<\/p>\n

  
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From SLOG just now… Holidays in America, even those that originate elsewhere, fall under three basic categories: eat-meat holidays, devour-candy holidays, and quaff-liquor holidays. We will call the last category—which includes New Year’s Eve, Cinco De Mayo, and St. Patrick’s Day—the “alcoholidays.” Most Americans associate these wonderful times primarily with drunkenness. Other holidays may be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}