{"id":634,"date":"2004-01-24T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:37:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:37:31","slug":"634","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/24\/634\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Stunned, Stunned I Tell You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/bozemandailychronicle.com\/articles\/2004\/01\/24\/news\/interventionbzbigs.txt\" target=\"new\">story<\/a> in the <i>Bozeman Daily Chronicle<\/i> indicates that men who drink more than fourteen drinks per week and women who drink more than seven drinks a week might be abusing alcohol.  Is that <i>really<\/i> &#8220;abusing&#8221; alcohol?<\/p>\n<p>Alcoholic beverages, such as delicious Guinness Draught, are designed for human consumption.  Consuming them, and even consuming lots of them, is actually using them properly.  Now, taking a couple bottles of Jack Daniels Old #7 Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey, pouring them over a couple of derelict sofas, and lighting them on fire, that&#8217;s alcohol abuse.  Whiskey is not supposed to be an accelerant in arson.  It&#8217;s supposed to be a slight intoxicant.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m stunned by some of this information,&#8221; said Roxanne Klingensmith, a deacon at St. James Episcopal Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The deacon should ask herself, <i>How often do I seek out information that stuns me?<\/i>  Information should educate or, well, inform; if it produces a physiological effect such as immobilization and if one frequently finds oneself stunned or seeking stunning information, one might well suffer from informationism and might <b>abuse information.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"new\">Fark<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle indicates that men who drink more than fourteen drinks per week and women who drink more than seven drinks a week might be abusing alcohol. Is that really &#8220;abusing&#8221; alcohol? Alcoholic beverages, such as delicious Guinness Draught, are designed for human consumption. Consuming them, and even consuming lots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libations","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","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=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22351,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/22351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}