{"id":400,"date":"2016-04-30T00:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T04:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=400"},"modified":"2016-04-30T00:45:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T04:45:45","slug":"on-falernum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2016\/04\/30\/on-falernum\/","title":{"rendered":"On Falernum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across Falernum a few times in the PDT book, I think; it was one of those things I never saw\/looked for\/assumed it was expensive (it&#8217;s totally not; under $20). So anyway, I finally got a bottle. Jen immediately tried something called a &#8220;Doctor Funk #2&#8221; in <em>Mr. Boston<\/em>: six parts dark rum, two parts Falernum, two parts grenadine, three parts lime juice, one dash absinthe, one dash Angostura bitters and club soda (we didn&#8217;t use the club soda). She made another round, then some more the next day.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really like rum, though I&#8217;m not really sure why; I just avoid rum drinks, in general. Maybe it&#8217;s the goofy names. Jen, on the other hand, very much likes rum, so this was in her wheelhouse\/right up her alley\/whatever.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks later I was searching for more Falernum drinks and found the ridiculously named &#8220;Satin Sheets&#8221; in <em>Mr. Boston<\/em>: six parts blanco tequila, two parts Falernum, two parts simple syrup and three parts lime juice. Now this was a cocktail; and it passed the guest test a week or so later. The other day I tried it with Mezcal and it was still good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across Falernum a few times in the PDT book, I think; it was one of those things I never saw\/looked for\/assumed it was expensive (it&#8217;s totally not; under $20). So anyway, I finally got a bottle. Jen immediately tried something called a &#8220;Doctor Funk #2&#8221; in Mr. Boston: six parts dark rum, two [&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":[232],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","tag-falernum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}