{"id":18952,"date":"2013-02-12T17:24:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=18952"},"modified":"2013-02-17T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T23:02:00","slug":"makers-mark-bourbon-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/02\/12\/makers-mark-bourbon-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Proof Is In The Drinking (Limerick) (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/louisville\/blog\/morning_call\/2013\/02\/citing-demand-makers-mark-will-lower.html\">news for bourbon<\/a> fans, like my husband Mark: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maker&#8217;s Mark bourbon will lower the alcohol content in its bourbon from 45 percent to 42 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Chief operating officer Rob Samuels said the reduction is the only way to meet higher demand&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Proof Is In The Drinking (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Maker&#8217;s Mark has announced that it&#8217;s curbin&#8217;<br \/>\nThe alcohol content of bourbon.<br \/>\nNow this isn&#8217;t a spoof&#8211;<br \/>\nI could give you the proof.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just glad they&#8217;re not cognac disturbin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Maker&#8217;s Mark has wisely decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2013\/02\/17\/makers-mark-reverses-decision-to-water-down-whiskey\/\">reverse its decision<\/a>. It won&#8217;t be watering down its bourbon, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for bourbon fans, like my husband Mark: Maker&#8217;s Mark bourbon will lower the alcohol content in its bourbon from 45 percent to 42 percent. Chief operating officer Rob Samuels said the reduction is the only way to meet higher demand&#8230; The Proof Is In The Drinking (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Maker&#8217;s Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[3484,3488,2675,3483,915,3489,600,1374,3487,3485,3486],"class_list":["post-18952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink-humor","category-limericks","tag-alcohol-content-humor","tag-alcohol-proof","tag-beverages","tag-bourbon-humor","tag-cognac","tag-cognac-limerick","tag-drink-verse","tag-drinking-limerick","tag-kentucky-humor","tag-makers-mark","tag-rob-samuels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18952"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19072,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18952\/revisions\/19072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}