{"id":3786,"date":"2017-12-23T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2017-12-23T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T01:54:09","slug":"the-military-and-whiskeys-250-year-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-military-and-whiskeys-250-year-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The military and whiskey\u2019s 250-year history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LOC-whiskey-southern-enlistees-1860s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3787\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-military-and-whiskeys-250-year-history\/loc-whiskey-southern-enlistees-1860s\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LOC-whiskey-southern-enlistees-1860s.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,756\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LOC whiskey southern enlistees 1860s\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LOC-whiskey-southern-enlistees-1860s-300x221.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LOC-whiskey-southern-enlistees-1860s-1024x756.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3787\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LOC-whiskey-southern-enlistees-1860s-1024x756.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LOC-whiskey-southern-enlistees-1860s.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LOC-whiskey-southern-enlistees-1860s-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LOC-whiskey-southern-enlistees-1860s-768x567.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>KCET, a public television station in Los Angeles, published an essay by me on the U.S. army&#8217;s long relationship with whiskey. As I note, &#8220;for military men and women, whiskey holds an additional appeal beyond its glorious amber color, robust flavor and mood-alleviating powers \u2014 it may even be more American than apple pie (which seems to have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_pie\">invented in England<\/a>). Whiskey has been with the America\u2019s armed forces since the earliest days of the republic&#8230;.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcet.org\/shows\/meals-ready-to-eat\/the-military-and-whiskeys-250-year-old-relationship#\">Read more at KCET.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KCET, a public television station in Los Angeles, published an essay by me on the U.S. army&#8217;s long relationship with whiskey. As I note, &#8220;for military men and women, whiskey holds an additional appeal beyond its glorious amber color, robust flavor and mood-alleviating powers \u2014 it may even be more American than apple pie (which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[138],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","tag-kcet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Z4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","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=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}