{"id":7978,"date":"2011-10-19T14:08:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T20:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=7978"},"modified":"2011-10-19T14:14:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T20:14:55","slug":"well-it-flunked-the-martyn-cornell-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/well-it-flunked-the-martyn-cornell-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, it flunked the Martyn Cornell test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought <a href=\"http:\/\/beervana.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/oxford-companion-to-beer-juggernaut-or.html\">Jeff Alworth was unimpressed<\/a> with the <em>Oxford Companion to Beer<\/em> yesterday then read what <a href=\"http:\/\/zythophile.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/19\/the-oxford-companion-to-beer-a-dreadful-disaster\/\">Martyn Cornell has written today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No summarizing from me. You must go read it. (Then go buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0752455672\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=beertravelers&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=0752455672\"><em>Amber, Gold &#038; Black: The History of Britain&#8217;s Great Beers<\/em>.<\/a> Support proper research. <em>Beer: The Story of the Pint<\/em> also belongs in your library, but it&#8217;s out of print, so buy something he earns royalty for.)<\/p>\n<p>But I do have to mention the sentence in his post where I stopped, shook my head, laughed, rolled back my chair and slapped my knee. Honest.<\/p>\n<p><em>Even Wikipedia is getting that right now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Words you don&#8217;t want on your tombstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought Jeff Alworth was unimpressed with the Oxford Companion to Beer yesterday then read what Martyn Cornell has written today. No summarizing from me. You must go read it. (Then go buy Amber, Gold &#038; Black: The History of Britain&#8217;s Great Beers. Support proper research. Beer: The Story of the Pint also belongs &#8230; <a title=\"Well, it flunked the Martyn Cornell test\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/well-it-flunked-the-martyn-cornell-test\/\" aria-label=\"More on Well, it flunked the Martyn Cornell test\">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-7978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-24G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978","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=7978"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7984,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions\/7984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}