{"id":11780,"date":"2012-08-03T06:37:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T11:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11780"},"modified":"2012-08-08T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:00:47","slug":"a-name-for-men-a-cutesy-picture-for-the-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/a-name-for-men-a-cutesy-picture-for-the-ladies\/","title":{"rendered":"A Name For Men, A Cutesy Picture For The Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/predator.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\">Predator wine.  It&#8217;s got a name that sounds like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093773\/\" target=\"_blank\">Schwarzenegger movie<\/a>, a name that speaks of a hunter stalking its prey and feasting on the warm, uncooked meat of a fresh kill.<\/p>\n<p>And then it&#8217;s got a cutesy little lady bug logo underneath it.  Something that looks like the little tattoo a middle-aged woman gets on her shoulder during her mid-life crisis (or in her .375 life crisis at 30).  I remember when table wines were proliferating, and all of a sudden we went from Mad Dog to a bunch of cutesy kangaroos and penguins on labels.  Women could feel safe cuddling with those bottles of wine.<\/p>\n<p>So now we have this fusion: A wine with a name strong enough for a man, but a logo made for a woman.  Something a couple can share, with all the marketing necessary to lure in casual retail wine browsers.<\/p>\n<p>Also, note that it is the only Zin I have ever drunk that has an undercurrent of barbecue.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><i>Yes, I know, technically speaking, a ladybug is a predator that eats aphids.  I have a garden, you know.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acronymfinder.com\/Don%27t-Write-Letters!-%28Steven-Den-Beste-blog%29-%28DWL%29.html\" target=\"0-blank\">DWL!<\/a>  The vineyard&#8217;s Web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.predatorwines.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">even explains it<\/a> for those who don&#8217;t.  But, really, when you hear <\/em>predator<\/em>, do you think <\/i>ladybug<i>?<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predator wine. It&#8217;s got a name that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie, a name that speaks of a hunter stalking its prey and feasting on the warm, uncooked meat of a fresh kill. And then it&#8217;s got a cutesy little lady bug logo underneath it. Something that looks like the little tattoo a middle-aged woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11802,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11780\/revisions\/11802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}