{"id":1552,"date":"2010-12-04T14:03:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2010-12-04T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T19:03:53","slug":"the-effect-of-prohibition-on-our-palates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-effect-of-prohibition-on-our-palates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Effects of Prohibition on Our Palates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wet-Dry-Ugly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1553\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-effect-of-prohibition-on-our-palates\/wet-dry-ugly\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wet-Dry-Ugly.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"250,212\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wet-Dry-Ugly\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wet-Dry-Ugly.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wet-Dry-Ugly.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1553\" title=\"Wet-Dry-Ugly\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wet-Dry-Ugly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a>Daniel Okrent&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743277023\/alcoholreviewsco\">Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition<\/a> (Scribner, 2010) encouraged me to think more deeply about what we drink and why.<\/p>\n<p>On December 3, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmartset.com\/article\/article12031001.aspx\">The Smart Set<\/a>, an online magazine at Drexel University, published my essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmartset.com\/article\/article12031001.aspx\">&#8220;The Wet, the Dry, and the Ugly.&#8221;<\/a> If you haven&#8217;t heard of this magazine, please give it a good look.\u00a0 It runs some very good pieces.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynecurtis.com\/\">Wayne Curtis<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/wayne-curtis\">The Atlantic<\/a> has written for it, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonwilson.com\/\">Jason Wilson<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/linkset\/2008\/04\/25\/LI2008042501946.html\">Washington Post<\/a> helps run it.<\/p>\n<p>New and used copies of Okrent&#8217;s book can be bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743277023\/alcoholreviewsco\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 In a forthcoming piece in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/author\/kevin-r.-kosar\">The Weekly Standard<\/a> I write about the weird politics that produced Prohibition, a topic that Okrent&#8217;s book nicely explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Okrent&#8217;s Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (Scribner, 2010) encouraged me to think more deeply about what we drink and why. On December 3, The Smart Set, an online magazine at Drexel University, published my essay, &#8220;The Wet, the Dry, and the Ugly.&#8221; If you haven&#8217;t heard of this magazine, please give [&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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[73],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews-nonfiction","tag-food-drink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-p2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}