{"id":237,"date":"2015-05-19T01:08:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T05:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=237"},"modified":"2015-05-19T01:08:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T05:08:27","slug":"manhattan-creeps-up-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/05\/19\/manhattan-creeps-up-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Creeps Up On You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lafayette, recorded for posterity in David A. Embury&#8217;s <em>The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks<\/em> is one part dry vermouth, one part Dubonnet, six parts whiskey and one dash Angostura bitters.<\/p>\n<p>You know, now that I&#8217;m rereading that it&#8217;s possible I screwed up everything. Maybe the whiskey shouldn&#8217;t have been Evan Williams green label cheap bourbon. Maybe when they say &#8220;Dubonnet&#8221; they mean the white kind (which I&#8217;ve never even seen and which is supposed to be gross) and not the red kind. If so, sorry.<\/p>\n<p>It tasted like a variation on a Manhattan, which it said it was going to be. It was in the &#8220;Whiskey Cocktails of the Aromatic Variety&#8221; section. I still can&#8217;t believe this guy wrote this book.  It&#8217;s huge and ridiculous in its breadth. Did he actually drink all this stuff? Could anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lafayette, recorded for posterity in David A. Embury&#8217;s The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks is one part dry vermouth, one part Dubonnet, six parts whiskey and one dash Angostura bitters. You know, now that I&#8217;m rereading that it&#8217;s possible I screwed up everything. Maybe the whiskey shouldn&#8217;t have been Evan Williams green label cheap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[93,152],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","tag-david-a-emburys-the-fine-art-of-mixing-drinks","tag-dubonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}