{"id":6922,"date":"2011-07-01T06:20:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T12:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2011-07-01T06:20:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T12:20:53","slug":"session-53-beer-and-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-53-beer-and-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Session #53: Beer and redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xFmlmMjD_SY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure host John Holl did not have what follows in mind when he ask us to write about <a href=\"http:\/\/beerbriefing.com\/beer-news\/announcing-session-53-beer-redemption\/\">&#8220;Beer Redemption&#8221;<\/a> for the 53rd gathering of The Session. But sometimes the hyperlinks in my brain get crossed. I went from thinking about how a beer might redeem itself (not making a connection) to how giving somebody a beer might be an act of redemption to what a joy it can be to put a refreshing beer in somebody&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Connection made. I thought of &#8220;The Shawshank Redemption.&#8221; Not because <em>redemption<\/em> is in the title, but because of the grin on Andy Dufresne&#8217;s face in the scene above, and the joy on his friends&#8217; faces, as they drink &#8220;Bohemian-style beer&#8221; on the freshly tarred roof.<\/p>\n<p>Red provides the commentary: &#8220;We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s then that we see Andy enjoying the moment, even though he&#8217;s not drinking himself.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Red: &#8220;You could argue he&#8217;d done it to curry favor with the guards. Or, maybe make a few friends among us cons. Me, I think he did it just to feel normal again, if only for a short while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>******<\/p>\n<p>My apologies for wandering of course this month. You&#8217;ll find more focused takes on the topic in The Session roundup at <a href=\"http:\/\/beerbriefing.com\/\">John Holl&#8217;s Beer Briefing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure host John Holl did not have what follows in mind when he ask us to write about &#8220;Beer Redemption&#8221; for the 53rd gathering of The Session. But sometimes the hyperlinks in my brain get crossed. I went from thinking about how a beer might redeem itself (not making a connection) to how &#8230; <a title=\"Session #53: Beer and redemption\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-53-beer-and-redemption\/\" aria-label=\"More on Session #53: Beer and redemption\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1NE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922","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=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6944,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}