{"id":1732,"date":"2007-09-08T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2007-09-08T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T08:49:00","slug":"it-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"It has begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fresh wine grapes arrived in Providence yesterday.  Today, I got 12 gallons of juice.  Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Grigio.  It has been &#8220;stilled&#8221; with the trusty Campden tablets, and in 24 hours the Montrachet yeast goes in.  This satisfies the desire to do *something* &#8230; but the concurrent requirement that we not mess up the whole house or break out all the brewing supplies.  All the wine has to do is sit still in a corner for a couple of weeks.  That&#8217;s not so bad, right?<\/p>\n<p>I figure that with the slower-than-expected consumption of last year&#8217;s vintage it&#8217;ll be no problem to let the Cab sit for a whole year (except, perhaps, for a bottle here and there).  <\/p>\n<p>And now, continuing the &#8220;for your amusement&#8221; trend, a cheesy song by a guy with a cat that looks just like my cat:<\/p>\n<p><lj-embed id=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fresh wine grapes arrived in Providence yesterday. Today, I got 12 gallons of juice. Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Grigio. It has been &#8220;stilled&#8221; with the trusty Campden tablets, and in 24 hours the Montrachet yeast goes in. This satisfies the desire to do *something* &#8230; but the concurrent requirement that we not mess up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,8,70],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brewing","tag-hobbies","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}