{"id":8374,"date":"2011-12-09T08:47:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T14:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=8374"},"modified":"2011-12-09T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T14:47:25","slug":"things-i-thought-id-never-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/things-i-thought-id-never-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I thought I&#8217;d never see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20111209-lefthand.jpg\" alt=\"Lefthand Beer Truck\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>Or maybe it is <em>Things I never thought I&#8217;d see<\/em> . . .<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, more than 14 years ago our daughter, Sierra, not yet a year old, matched her hand up against a sticker in the brewery at Left Hand Brewing in Longmont, Colorado. For years I told a perhaps-made-up-story about how she learned to tell her left from right by checking Left Hand bottle caps. <\/p>\n<p>So this morning after I dropped her at <em>high school<\/em> I&#8217;m heading home and not far up the road I see a beer truck with a giant Left Hand logo on the back. Not something I ever thought I&#8217;d see driving along a street in St. Louis (Clayton in reality, but this way you don&#8217;t have to get out a map).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe it is Things I never thought I&#8217;d see . . . Anyway, more than 14 years ago our daughter, Sierra, not yet a year old, matched her hand up against a sticker in the brewery at Left Hand Brewing in Longmont, Colorado. For years I told a perhaps-made-up-story about how she learned to &#8230; <a title=\"Things I thought I&#8217;d never see\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/things-i-thought-id-never-see\/\" aria-label=\"More on Things I thought I&#8217;d never see\">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-8374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2b4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374","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=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8382,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions\/8382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}