{"id":8297,"date":"2011-12-02T04:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T10:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=8297"},"modified":"2011-12-02T04:49:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T10:49:04","slug":"session-58-what-would-scrooge-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-58-what-would-scrooge-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"Session #58: What would Scrooge drink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/><em>This is my contribution to The Session #58, hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/beersay.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/14\/thesession-a-dickens-of-a-topic-for-december-2011\/\">Phil Hardy at Beersay: A Christmas Carol<\/a>. Visit his site for more posts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you were going to buy Scrooge a beer for the holidays, realizing full well he wouldn&#8217;t be getting the next round, which one would you choose?<\/p>\n<p>This is easier to think about when you can put a face to Scrooge, or the face of one of the many actors who have played him on film. Plenty of contrasting choices &#151; for instance George C. Scott (<em>Patton<\/em>) or Bill Murray (<em>Stripes<\/em>)? Jim Carrey, Kelsey Grammer, Tim Curry (well, his voice), Reginald Owen, the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20111202-ebeneezer.jpg\" alt=\"Ebeneezer\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>I&#8217;m partial to Alistair Sim from the 1951 film <em>Scrooge<\/em> (and later in the voice in an animated TV version of <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>). Who wouldn&#8217;t want to buy a beer for a &#8220;sad-faced actor, with the voice of a fastidious ghoul?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what beer?<\/p>\n<p><em>Ebeneezer<\/em> from BridgePort Brewing in Portland, of course. Pour it in a snifter and put another log on the fire. <\/p>\n<p>Which Scrooge would you pick? And which beer? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my contribution to The Session #58, hosted by Phil Hardy at Beersay: A Christmas Carol. Visit his site for more posts. If you were going to buy Scrooge a beer for the holidays, realizing full well he wouldn&#8217;t be getting the next round, which one would you choose? This is easier to think &#8230; <a title=\"Session #58: What would Scrooge drink?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-58-what-would-scrooge-drink\/\" aria-label=\"More on Session #58: What would Scrooge 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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-29P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297","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=8297"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8320,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions\/8320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}