{"id":3,"date":"2007-08-13T19:42:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T01:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/blotto\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-08-13T19:42:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T01:42:23","slug":"shaken-not-shtirred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Shaken, not shtirred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that a martini <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/health_science\/articles\/2007\/08\/13\/i_know_james_bond_has_a_preference_but_is_there_a_big_difference_between_a_shaken_martini_and_a_stirred_one\/\">shaken &#8211; not stirred<\/a> &#8211; helps deactivate hydrogen peroxide (an antioxidant) better than gin or vermouth alone and twice as effective than when stirred. This is important because 007 is a tough old bastard, and part of his health may be due to competent bartending.<\/p>\n<p>Never you mind that Bond ordered a total of 19 vodka martinis to 16 gin ones in the original novels, or that he (and Fleming) both enjoyed bourbon more. And don&#8217;t even start on that fruit cocktail\/booze abortion of a vesper.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, this should just tell you one thing: have a goddamn drink, already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that a martini shaken &#8211; not stirred &#8211; helps deactivate hydrogen peroxide (an antioxidant) better than gin or vermouth alone and twice as effective than when stirred. This is important because 007 is a tough old bastard, and part of his health may be due to competent bartending. Never you mind that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bourbon","category-clear-liquor","category-gin-a-bon","category-mixed-drinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}