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How do you review a bottle opener?<\/p>\nHow do you review a bottle opener?<\/p>\n
It works. Or it doesn’t. This one works.<\/p>\n
But $19.95 for a bottle opener? That must be a political statement. Really. I don’t think you buy a “Beers not Bombs”<\/a> bottle opener unless you want to make a political statement or are enthralled by the story about how they are made. A company called War to Peace<\/a> fashions jewelry from Peace Bronze, an alloy taken from copper previously used for wiring in nuclear missile systems.<\/p>\n The bottle openers are the newest addition to its catalog and 20 percent of profits are donated to peace and social justice organizations: The Hunger Project; Doctors Without Borders\/M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res; and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. <\/p>\n Now the disclaimer:<\/strong> The folks at War to Peace sent me the bottle opener pictured. Had they simply sent a press release I likely would have mentioned “Beers not Bombs” in a bunch-o-links post rather than devoting 200 words to the topic. I’m passing this much along not to make a political statement or because I need another bottle opener, but because it’s an interesting story. One you might talk about over a beer, where discussions involving politics are encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How do you review a bottle opener? It works. Or it doesn’t. This one works. But $19.95 for a bottle opener? That must be a political statement. Really. I don’t think you buy a “Beers not Bombs” bottle opener unless you want to make a political statement or are enthralled by the story about how … 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-7079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1Qb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079","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=7079"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7122,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions\/7122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}