{"id":271,"date":"2015-06-15T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T04:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=271"},"modified":"2015-06-15T00:51:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T04:51:11","slug":"like-fucking-robert-palmer-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/06\/15\/like-fucking-robert-palmer-or-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Fucking Robert Palmer Or Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jen&#8217;s been on a rum kick &#8212; last night we didn&#8217;t have cocktails at the Tiki-themed Chinese restaurant, so we resolved to have them at home. Now I don&#8217;t know the first thing about festive tikiness, and I much prefer the tang of bourbon to the treacle of rum, but I&#8217;m assuming I just haven&#8217;t had the right cocktail. Last night it was the time capsule cocktail the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/06\/14\/heres-a-cocktail-named-after-a-1960s-era-sculpture-in-flushing-meadows-corona-park\/\">Unisphere<\/a>. Not very tiki. Tonight it was the Irresistible (Mr. Boston, page 117): Six parts white rum (I was told this rum was probably not white), two parts sweet vermouth, one part Benedictine and one part lemon juice. It was complex tasting &#8212; the secondary ingredients melted into each other in a pleasant way.<\/p>\n<p>As sweet as this tasted, it was surprising there wasn&#8217;t any sugar. Must be the the rum. I mean, I guess? I&#8217;m determined to make a month&#8217;s worth of rum cocktails, just as a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jen&#8217;s been on a rum kick &#8212; last night we didn&#8217;t have cocktails at the Tiki-themed Chinese restaurant, so we resolved to have them at home. Now I don&#8217;t know the first thing about festive tikiness, and I much prefer the tang of bourbon to the treacle of rum, but I&#8217;m assuming I just haven&#8217;t [&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":[96,111,168],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","tag-benedictine","tag-mr-boston-official-bartenders-guide","tag-rum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}