{"id":333,"date":"2003-10-03T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-03T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:39:29","slug":"333","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/03\/333\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy That Man a Guinness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/F362F9633DE17F7586256DB3001354C6?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=A-B+drops+support+of+Holden+over+guns++\" target=\"new\">reports<\/a> that Anheuser-Busch has decided not to contribute to Missouri Governor B. Holden&#8217;s re-election campaign because he vetoed the concealed carry bill.  The legislature, of course, overrode that veto, but seems that August A. Busch III is a sportsman and a citizen concerned with his personal security and he&#8217;s in a punishing mood.  Anheuser-Busch as a whole supports candidates like it sponsors sports teams, that is, it gives money to all of them.  Except, now, B. Holden.<\/p>\n<p>Title this lesson <b>Beer Baron with Bling Bling Likes Bang Bang, Bye Bye Billy<\/b> if you like.<\/p>\n<p>Let it be said that I was so pleased with the story that I <i>almost<\/i> bought a sixer of Budweiser tonight to reward Anheuser-Busch for its stand, until I realized that I cannot drink it and that the other attendees of El Guapo&#8217;s mixer-sixer party this weekend would beat the bud out of me if I contributed an Anheuser-Busch product while drinking their ten-dollar-a-six-pack contributions.  Skull Splitter, anyone?  Not me, thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Anheuser-Busch has decided not to contribute to Missouri Governor B. Holden&#8217;s re-election campaign because he vetoed the concealed carry bill. The legislature, of course, overrode that veto, but seems that August A. Busch III is a sportsman and a citizen concerned with his personal security and he&#8217;s in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21994,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/21994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}