{"id":9914,"date":"2015-04-28T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=9914"},"modified":"2015-06-02T20:15:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T03:15:29","slug":"dry-martini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=9914","title":{"rendered":"Dry Martini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the Netherlands on a river cruise. \u00a0The boat is registered in Germany. \u00a0The crew is mostly Rumanian. \u00a0At the bar I ordered a dry martini and it was almost undrinkable. \u00a0What went wrong? \u00a0The bartender heard dry and saw that the vermouth was dry vermouth so he interpreted dry martini to mean extra vermouth. Exactly the opposite of what I intended. \u00a0After some gestured explanations he understood and produced an excellent martini. Life is complicated but fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0282.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0282.jpg?resize=401%2C300\" width=\"401\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the Netherlands on a river cruise. \u00a0The boat is registered in Germany. \u00a0The crew is mostly Rumanian. \u00a0At the bar I ordered a dry martini and it was almost undrinkable. \u00a0What went wrong? \u00a0The bartender heard dry and saw that the vermouth was dry vermouth so he interpreted dry martini to mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2zU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9917,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions\/9917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}