{"id":13720,"date":"2016-02-05T05:56:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T11:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=13720"},"modified":"2016-02-05T05:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T11:56:47","slug":"session-108-let-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-108-let-it-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Session #108: Let it snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20160205-bend.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"408\" alt=\"Road to Bend, Oregon\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>The theme for The Session #108 today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrewsite.com\/announcing-the-next-session-108-snowed-in\/\">&#8220;Snowed In!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t get a lot of snow when we lived in New Mexico &#8212; after all, it is the high desert &#8212; and we don&#8217;t get all that much now in St. Louis. If you can walk to a brewery in 20 minutes you are not snowed in.<\/p>\n<p>But I can see where host Jon Abernathy is coming from. The top photo was taken on a drive from Corvallis, Oregon, to Bend, where Jon lives, in <em>late March.<\/em> It was raining in Corvallis.<\/p>\n<p>The photo at the bottom was taken in Durango, Colorado, less than a four-hour drive from our NM  home when it wasn&#8217;t snowing. On the weekend this was taken it had been a harrowing drive north on a Friday, but on Saturday about three feet of snow that had fallen in the previous five days awaited. Daria and Sierra put on their skis. I put on snowshoes. Nice work if you can get it.<\/p>\n<p>Later we drank Modus Hoperandi IPA and Steel Toe Stout from Ska Brewing. They pair well with snow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20160205-durango.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"1087\" alt=\"Pabst beer, Durango, Colorado\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for The Session #108 today is &#8220;Snowed In!&#8221; We didn&#8217;t get a lot of snow when we lived in New Mexico &#8212; after all, it is the high desert &#8212; and we don&#8217;t get all that much now in St. Louis. If you can walk to a brewery in 20 minutes you are &#8230; <a title=\"Session #108: Let it snow\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-108-let-it-snow\/\" aria-label=\"More on Session #108: Let it snow\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3zi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720","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=13720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13722,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions\/13722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}