{"id":299,"date":"2006-07-13T07:37:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T12:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=232"},"modified":"2006-07-13T07:37:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T12:37:26","slug":"near-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Near beer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought one of the things I would miss most after becoming pregnant would be beer.\u00a0 But then I guess I&#8217;ve never really had to miss out on a spring and summer (i.e. patio season) before.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s not much else like a cold beer on a hot Friday afternoon on the patio&#8230;or the deck, or at the cottage, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So Dan came up with a plan.\u00a0 While shopping for our Tuesday date night dinner, he picked up some near beer and\u00a0chilled the glasses we would drink it from.\u00a0 You&#8217;d be surprised how good it tasted.\u00a0 I mean, it wasn&#8217;t a Moosehead or a Hoegaarden (my favourites), but it was tasty.\u00a0 And frosty.\u00a0 And beery.\u00a0 And exactly what I needed.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dining-9751.jpeg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/dining-9751.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image231\" title=\"dining-9751.jpeg\" alt=\"dining-9751.jpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/dining-9751.jpeg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0a time when you have to give up some of the more fun things in life (granted it&#8217;s totally worth it in the end), it&#8217;s nice to know that there are people out there that work hard to give\u00a0you some options&#8230;near beer, decaf coffee, virgin cocktails, herbal tea&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only someone could come up with a pain-free substitute for the labour and delivery part of the pregnancy. That would be genius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought one of the things I would miss most after becoming pregnant would be beer.\u00a0 But then I guess I&#8217;ve never really had to miss out on a spring and summer (i.e. patio season) before.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s not much else like a cold beer on a hot Friday afternoon on the patio&#8230;or the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}