{"id":8380,"date":"2024-03-16T15:02:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T20:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2024-03-18T20:43:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T01:43:47","slug":"a-wicked-world-of-winelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8380","title":{"rendered":"A Wicked World of Winelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8216;Tis a wicked world of winelessness: <br>Weakening the soul. <br>What to do with those taste buds? <br>Just put those jewels on hold? <br>You know they got a purpose: <br>To savor such things well <br>And prompt much thanksgiving<br>For our escape from that placed called hell.<br>Ain&#8217;t no thing to get some buzz;<br>(Can&#8217;t say I get it much of that &#8216;cuz<br>I really don&#8217;t take much in real fast.<br>I like to make my drinking last!)<br>It&#8217;s the <em>tasting<\/em> that a fellow must dig;<br>Not just sloshin&#8217; it down like a pig.<br>A wine-less world is one of deprivation,<br>And sometimes such we must suffer.<br>But it need not be a thing of intention<br>Where the blessing for another is withheld!<br>That juice is a most savorous matter of delight,<br>So why make it an issue over which to fight?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1555 on 16 March, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tis a wicked world of winelessness: Weakening the soul. What to do with those taste buds? Just put those jewels on hold? You know they got a purpose: To savor such things well And prompt much thanksgivingFor our escape from that placed called hell.Ain&#8217;t no thing to get some buzz;(Can&#8217;t say I get it much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,54,18,30,52,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8386,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions\/8386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}