{"id":13186,"date":"2015-02-26T06:16:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T12:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=13186"},"modified":"2015-02-26T06:16:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T12:16:31","slug":"the-bier-oyster-connection-seldom-spoken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-bier-oyster-connection-seldom-spoken\/","title":{"rendered":"The bier-oyster connection seldom spoken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You dont see newspaper leads like this any more. It appeared in the <em>Nashville Union and American<\/em> in 1871, and was taken from the <em>Cincinnati Gazette<\/em> (no date given):<\/p>\n<p>It is the custom of the world to honor great inventors and discoverers with a meed of praise proportionate to the importance of that to which they have introduced the human race. We glorify Franklin for bottling up lightning, and sound high the name of Morse because he utilized it for commercial and other purposes. We apotheosize Watt for demonstrating a practical use of steam; Guttenberg, for the invention of movable type; Jacquard, because he gave the world the silk loom, and Friar Bacon for the invention which is said to have blown his student and his laboratory  out of existence at one and the same moment. Upon these and other inventors and discoverers all can put we can put our finger, as it were, with a moments reflection; but looking for the man to whom civilization is indebted for its <em>bier<\/em>, we find this identity wrapped in the mists of uncertainty which which envelop that of the individual who ate the first oyster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One hundred and sixty-four words. Whew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You dont see newspaper leads like this any more. It appeared in the Nashville Union and American in 1871, and was taken from the Cincinnati Gazette (no date given): It is the custom of the world to honor great inventors and discoverers with a meed of praise proportionate to the importance of that to which &#8230; <a title=\"The bier-oyster connection seldom spoken\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-bier-oyster-connection-seldom-spoken\/\" aria-label=\"More on The bier-oyster connection seldom spoken\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3qG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186","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=13186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13189,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186\/revisions\/13189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}