{"id":13842,"date":"2016-04-12T05:56:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T11:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=13842"},"modified":"2016-05-02T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:10:52","slug":"session-111-announced-beer-mid-life-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-111-announced-beer-mid-life-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Session #111 announced: Beer mid-life crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Host Oliver Gray has announced <a href=\"https:\/\/literatureandlibation.com\/2016\/04\/11\/announcement-the-session-111-surviving-a-beer-midlife-crisis\/\">the topic for the 111th gathering<\/a> of The Session on May 6. He writes, &#8220;I&#8217;m having a beer mid-life crisis, yo.&#8221; And so &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All that talk of beer bubbles might prove true, but instead of a dramatic *pop* we&#8217;ll might see a slow deflation followed by a farting noise as some of the air leaks out and the hobbyist move on the spend their time and dollars elsewhere. It&#8217;s impossible to see the future, but if my fall from rabid beer fanboy to dude-who-drinks-beer-and-sort-of-wants-to-be-left-alone is indicative of a trend, I&#8217;ve got some signs to make a doomsaying to do.<\/p>\n<p>What say you?<\/p>\n<p>Do you find it hard to muster the same zeal for beer as you did a few years ago? Are you suffering through a beer-life crisis like I am? If so, how do you deal with it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to pick on Oliver, but when I saw his tweet &#8212; &#8220;I&#8217;m hosting the Session again in May. Topic? Beer Mid-Life Crisis. It&#8217;s exactly what it sounds like.&#8221; &#8212; my first thought was, &#8220;Mid-life crisis? You are a pup.&#8221; I do hope some bloggers in his age class, as opposed to mine, tackle this question. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host Oliver Gray has announced the topic for the 111th gathering of The Session on May 6. He writes, &#8220;I&#8217;m having a beer mid-life crisis, yo.&#8221; And so &#8230; All that talk of beer bubbles might prove true, but instead of a dramatic *pop* we&#8217;ll might see a slow deflation followed by a farting noise &#8230; <a title=\"Session #111 announced: Beer mid-life crisis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-111-announced-beer-mid-life-crisis\/\" aria-label=\"More on Session #111 announced: Beer mid-life crisis\">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-13842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3Bg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842","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=13842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13891,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions\/13891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}