{"id":24617,"date":"2019-06-02T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24617"},"modified":"2019-06-01T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T17:01:07","slug":"when-in-ridgedale-drink-as-the-norwegians-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/02\/when-in-ridgedale-drink-as-the-norwegians-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"When In Ridgedale, Drink As The Norwegians Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/frogsleapwine.jpg\" width=\"225\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I cannot understand why this is not an aphorism.  Perhaps it&#8217;s better as a koan: <em>What does it mean?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It means that, when choosing a wine to go with our meal at the Devil&#8217;s Pool restaurant at Big Cedar last week, I selected the wine that goes best with Norwegian heavy metal covers: Frog&#8217;s Leap Zinfandel.<\/p>\n<p>Frog Leap Studios, of course, is the name of Leo Moracchioli&#8217;s venture.  Here&#8217;s a recent song of his, a cover of Madness&#8217;s &#8220;Our House&#8221; that advertises Leo&#8217;s house for sale:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BAAqKVEMVN0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I looked into it; the house is roughly $300,000 in real money.  Located in the balmy southeastern part of Norway, if I lived there, I&#8217;d expect to bump into Morton Harket, Pal Waaktaar-Savoy, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6AhTqec1VFg\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tine Thing Helseth<\/a> all the time.<\/p>\n<p>But, alas, I am a man of modest means and cannot afford tiny little houses with awesome recording studios in the shed.  Or <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/27\/my-next-home\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">castles<\/a> closer by.<\/p>\n<p>Where was I?  Oh, yes, the wine.  Very nice.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, I have <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/03\/when-you-send-brian-j-into-the-nogglestead-wine-cellar\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a thing for wines that remind me of heavy metal bands<\/a>.  Or just a thing for wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot understand why this is not an aphorism. Perhaps it&#8217;s better as a koan: What does it mean? It means that, when choosing a wine to go with our meal at the Devil&#8217;s Pool restaurant at Big Cedar last week, I selected the wine that goes best with Norwegian heavy metal covers: Frog&#8217;s Leap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libations","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24617","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=24617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24622,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24617\/revisions\/24622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}