{"id":592,"date":"2005-10-08T21:10:47","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T02:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=592"},"modified":"2005-10-08T21:10:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-09T02:10:47","slug":"on-trying-new-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"On Trying New Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a stout drinker, and rather than pick up my usual six pack of Guinness bottles I decided to try something different&#8211;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beamish.ie\">Beamish Irish Stout<\/a>.  It&#8217;s nice, slightly more bitter than the Guinness Draught, and it carries more of a <i>kick<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I disassembled the cans to see what the nitrogen widgets look like.  Not at all what I was expecting&#8211;maybe I should have left the matter to my imagination.<\/p>\n<p>On a completely different note, <i>why<\/i> must the kittens pull the books off my shelves?  <i>Why?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And now there&#8217;s a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?s=hellboy\">Hellboy<\/a> novel, Brian Hodge&#8217;s <i>On Earth as It Is in Hell<\/i>.  I hope it has giant gorillas with huge freakin&#8217; metal bolts sticking out of their necks.  That would be sweet!<\/p>\n<p>New things, new things. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a stout drinker, and rather than pick up my usual six pack of Guinness bottles I decided to try something different&#8211;the Beamish Irish Stout. It&#8217;s nice, slightly more bitter than the Guinness Draught, and it carries more of a kick. Also, I disassembled the cans to see what the nitrogen widgets look like. Not<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=592\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Trying New Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[327,367,4101],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beer","tag-hellboy","tag-reading","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}