{"id":4043,"date":"2010-05-17T17:54:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T23:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2010-05-17T19:44:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T01:44:03","slug":"if-yuppies-still-exist-what-do-they-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/if-yuppies-still-exist-what-do-they-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"If Yuppies still exist what do they drink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As I walked out one evening, down Columbus Avenue,<br \/>\nThe sushi bars were shuttered, the dark cantinas, too.<br \/>\nI stood there in the darkness, as an empty cab rolled by<br \/>\nWhen all at once I heard the sound of Yuppies in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen them in commercials, sailing boats and playing ball,<br \/>\nPouring beer for one another, crying, &#8220;Why not have it all?&#8221;.<br \/>\nNow I saw the ghostly progress, down Columbus Avenue,<br \/>\nI heard the cry for mercy, and it chilled me through and through.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Tom Paxton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I was listening to &#8220;Yuppies in the Sky&#8221; this morning (as sung by Mr. Paxton) and the question at the top occurred to me.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a silly thought, but Yuppies were in their &#8220;prime&#8221; about the time we started talking about microbreweries. Plus Yuppies certainly were (or should I be typing are?) about badges. And, like it or not, beer that isn&#8217;t yellow in the glass still serves as a badge.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I saw Yuppies drinking non-yellow beer about the time the 1980s morphed into the &#8217;90s, but I don&#8217;t seem to have any photos. Wonder what was in their glasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I walked out one evening, down Columbus Avenue, The sushi bars were shuttered, the dark cantinas, too. I stood there in the darkness, as an empty cab rolled by When all at once I heard the sound of Yuppies in the sky. I&#8217;ve seen them in commercials, sailing boats and playing ball, Pouring beer &#8230; <a title=\"If Yuppies still exist what do they drink?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/if-yuppies-still-exist-what-do-they-drink\/\" aria-label=\"More on If Yuppies still exist what do they drink?\">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":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-13d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","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=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4052,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}