{"id":11411,"date":"2013-06-07T06:39:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T12:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/?p=11411"},"modified":"2013-06-07T06:39:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T12:39:43","slug":"the-session-76-walking-away-from-compulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-76-walking-away-from-compulsion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Session #76: Walking away from compulsion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Glenn Humphries at <strong>beer is your friend<\/strong> hosts <a href=\"http:\/\/beerisyourfriend.org\/2013\/05\/09\/the-session-76-announcement-compulsion\/\">The Session #76<\/a> this month. The topic is &#8220;compulsion&#8221; and you&#8217;ll find links to other posts at <a href=\"http:\/\/beerisyourfriend.org\/2013\/05\/09\/the-session-76-announcement-compulsion\/\">beer is your friend.<\/a> On the whole, more thoughtful than my efforts here, because I confess to being at a loss.<\/p>\n<p>Correctly or not, I tend to link compulsion with obsessive behavior. That can include collecting &#151; tracking down card number 156 to fill out a set of baseball cards, finding that last penny that completes that once empty book you got for your birthday. So, given my lack of coherent thought and (honestly) time, I&#8217;m leaning on singer-songwriter Joe Ely to comment. <\/p>\n<p><em>She collected<br \/>\nChain letters, Irish setters, go-getters<br \/>\nShe just needed more<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She collected<br \/>\nShow-stoppers, window-shoppers, name droppers,<br \/>\nShe just needed more<br \/>\nShe just needed more<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At first I hardly noticed<br \/>\nI thought she was just showing affection<br \/>\nBut when her carpenter came<br \/>\nto measure me for a frame<br \/>\nI walked right out of her collection<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; From &#8220;She Collected,&#8221; written and performed by Joe Ely<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Humphries at beer is your friend hosts The Session #76 this month. The topic is &#8220;compulsion&#8221; and you&#8217;ll find links to other posts at beer is your friend. On the whole, more thoughtful than my efforts here, because I confess to being at a loss. Correctly or not, I tend to link compulsion with &#8230; <a title=\"The Session #76: Walking away from compulsion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-76-walking-away-from-compulsion\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Session #76: Walking away from compulsion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2Y3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11411"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11423,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411\/revisions\/11423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}