{"id":166,"date":"2007-02-16T15:23:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T15:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/setting-a-wine-blogger-straight\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T22:27:55","slug":"setting-a-wine-blogger-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/setting-a-wine-blogger-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting a wine blogger straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the categories here is Beer &#038; Wine. That&#8217;s not Beer <em>versus<\/em> Wine.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Jordan would seem to disagree. She has written a stupid, and offensive to many, piece titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/archives\/2007\/02\/09\/044241.php\">Climbing the Liquor Ladder: Going from Beer to Wine<\/a>.&#8221; What&#8217;s amazing is how many beer drinkers joined the conversation (which is what blogs are about).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookston.org\/beer\/\">Jay Brooks<\/a> as done more than just comment &#8211; taking her to task in a lengthy blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Is she a genuine wine snob, mean-spirited, or simply taking a lead from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist who grabbed all kind of attention (and many links) by <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-higher-meaning-of-cheap-beer\/\">taking a poke<\/a> at beer snobs?<\/p>\n<p>I hope this isn&#8217;t a trend. Want to generate a little traffic for your newspaper site, blog, whatever? Write something offensive about people who drink beer, see your list of comments grow near 100.<\/p>\n<p>The curious part is that if her goal is to motivate beer drinkers to &#8220;move up to wine&#8221; or to somehow educate them about the pleasures of drinking wine (and there are many) then her column wasn&#8217;t worth much. On the other hand, because so many beer drinkers added solid suggestions her post ended up adding a little beer education to the blogosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Good job, folks.<\/p>\n<p>Think we should invite her to the first <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/time-for-a-beer-blogging-day\">beer blogging day<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the categories here is Beer &#038; Wine. That&#8217;s not Beer versus Wine. Jennifer Jordan would seem to disagree. She has written a stupid, and offensive to many, piece titled &#8220;Climbing the Liquor Ladder: Going from Beer to Wine.&#8221; What&#8217;s amazing is how many beer drinkers joined the conversation (which is what blogs are &#8230; <a title=\"Setting a wine blogger straight\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/setting-a-wine-blogger-straight\/\" aria-label=\"More on Setting a wine blogger straight\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","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=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9935,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/9935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}