{"id":23812,"date":"2018-11-03T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T16:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23812"},"modified":"2018-11-03T11:44:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T16:44:46","slug":"when-you-send-brian-j-into-the-nogglestead-wine-cellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/03\/when-you-send-brian-j-into-the-nogglestead-wine-cellar\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Send Brian J. Into The Nogglestead Wine Cellar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thematriarch.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I grilled a couple of steaks last night, and I asked my beautiful wife if she would like me to pick out a bottle of wine.<\/p>\n<p>What, then, are the odds that I would select something named for a song by the band Unleash the Archers?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fs8RUFS18g0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To be clear, I did not buy a bottle of The Matriarch because it shares a name with the song, although I would have if I had the chance.  The bottle came as part of a Random Number Generator Wine Club that my wife joined on a lark which sent a number of remaindered bottles from various California and Missouri wineries to our house.  The Matriarch here is actually one of the better selections from the wine club.  It&#8217;s a red blend, a little Malbecky, but pretty good for a Missouri wine.<\/p>\n<p>If I see it at the local shops, I might pick it up.  After all, I am the sort of man that dresses his whole family up as heavy metal fans for the church&#8217;s Trunk or Treat <em>just so I have an excuse to buy an Unleash the Archers shirt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/unleashthearchersshirt.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Which I wear <em>almost every day<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grilled a couple of steaks last night, and I asked my beautiful wife if she would like me to pick out a bottle of wine. What, then, are the odds that I would select something named for a song by the band Unleash the Archers? To be clear, I did not buy a bottle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libations","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23812","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=23812"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23818,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23812\/revisions\/23818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}