{"id":6847,"date":"2003-05-28T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-29T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/28\/6847\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T20:58:03","slug":"6847","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/28\/6847\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Just Mocking Negra Modelo Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a conversation with friends last night, I told some friends that Negra Modelo beer was unpalatable, and that the definition of a Mexican dark beer is beer that is made downstream from <i>las maquiladoras<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>James Lileks, in his alway-amusing column &#8220;The Bleat&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/03\/0503\/052803.html\" target=\"new\">disagrees<\/a>.  He dislikes Corona, but can consume Negra Modelo.  Of course, I don&#8217;t care for Corona, Negra Modelo, or Heineken (the other beer in his column, which takes issue with a <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> ranking of favorite beers).<\/p>\n<p>Corona, the number one beer in the United States?  What a travesty!  What about <b>Guinness Draught<\/b>?!<\/p>\n<p>Although one thing that Guinness, Heineken, or any American beer lacks is a young, attractive woman billionaire running the show.  Grupo Modelo has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2002\/02\/27\/2002women_5.html\" target=\"new\">Maria Aramburuzabala<\/a>, a bachelorette last time I checked.  (Attention, my bachelor reader!)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only <a href=\"http:\/\/angelweaving.blogspot.com\" target=\"new\">one way<\/a> to top a wealthy beer heiress as a mate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a conversation with friends last night, I told some friends that Negra Modelo beer was unpalatable, and that the definition of a Mexican dark beer is beer that is made downstream from las maquiladoras. James Lileks, in his alway-amusing column &#8220;The Bleat&#8221;, disagrees. He dislikes Corona, but can consume Negra Modelo. Of course, I [&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-6847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847","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=6847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21161,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions\/21161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}