{"id":26115,"date":"2014-05-13T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=26115"},"modified":"2014-05-13T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:06:01","slug":"world-cocktail-day-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/05\/13\/world-cocktail-day-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy World Cocktail Day (May 13th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limerick Ode To The Cocktail<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>We celebrate cocktails in May:<br \/>\nMay 13th is &#8220;World Cocktail Day.&#8221; Yay!<br \/>\nBut I hope you won&#8217;t laugh<br \/>\nWhen I say on behalf<br \/>\nOf its worshippers: Why just one day?<\/p>\n<p>(On May 13, 1806, The Balance and Columbian Repository, an upstate New York newspaper, published the first known definition of the word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diffordsguide.com\/encyclopedia\/2014-05-08\/418\/cocktails\/world-cocktail-day\">&#8220;cock-tail,&#8221;<\/a> as &#8220;a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limerick Ode To The Cocktail By Madeleine Begun Kane We celebrate cocktails in May: May 13th is &#8220;World Cocktail Day.&#8221; Yay! But I hope you won&#8217;t laugh When I say on behalf Of its worshippers: Why just one day? (On May 13, 1806, The Balance and Columbian Repository, an upstate New York newspaper, published the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,33,42,1524],"tags":[1375,2675,600,2784,1374,2494,2097,5012],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26115"}],"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=26115"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26132,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26115\/revisions\/26132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}