{"id":49438,"date":"2015-01-30T19:07:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T02:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/oh-its-gin-gin-gin-that-makes-you-want-to-sin-2.html"},"modified":"2015-01-30T19:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T02:07:43","slug":"oh-its-gin-gin-gin-that-makes-you-want-to-sin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/oh-its-gin-gin-gin-that-makes-you-want-to-sin-2.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Oh, It&#039;s Gin, Gin, Gin, that Makes You Want to Sin &#8230;&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craft gin is getting a serious leg up in the US, too. Which makes me happy as a lone gin drinker in a family-and-friends herd of scotch aficionados.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/roads\/2015\/01\/gin_craze_after_centuries_of_mediocrity_british_drinkers_and_distillers.single.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/PiJePTSVV4GBghRYkFj1arSmA8SqdoFQnhdxOZ28WXwHFkmCVwK_NFAyNnDw5Ggoe_ehvL7CeJhKJvzCjxViUpdbew_tYiXUYgv-YNDfRaacNPTI8-zpFbKl4U8mJccDTAiI5D3PkEzy5Dv_TweigA4gTrhPSXwmFvEnugFBpUfS-mSl4pyJfwaWzjMxgjDYCieoNINn67f8js6Bd8NMewcQl8RsFaG9X12PRA=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/roads\/2015\/01\/gin_craze_after_centuries_of_mediocrity_british_drinkers_and_distillers.single.html'>England&rsquo;s Hipsters Are in the Midst of a New Gin Craze<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nEach Friday, Roads &#038; Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and photography, visit their online magazine or follow @roadskingdoms on Twitter. LONDON&mdash;I travel a lot, often slipping off the edge of the map to places barely connected to the outside world. Sometimes, when I come home,&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/WUCC4LYe1uV'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craft gin is getting a serious leg up in the US, too. Which makes me happy as a lone gin drinker in a family-and-friends herd of scotch aficionados. England&rsquo;s Hipsters Are in the Midst of a New Gin Craze Each Friday, Roads &#038; Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/oh-its-gin-gin-gin-that-makes-you-want-to-sin-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Oh, It&#039;s Gin, Gin, Gin, that Makes You Want to Sin &#8230;&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12635,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/oh_its_gin_gin_gin_that_m.html","url_meta":{"origin":49438,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s gin, gin, gin, that makes you want to sin &#8230;&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 8-Mar-08 4:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I'm on the topic of gin\/genever ... 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