{"id":286,"date":"2003-10-24T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=286"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:41:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:41:53","slug":"washingtons-whisky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Washington\\&#8217;s Whisky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/php.indiana.edu\/~cnowicke\/\" Target=\"Offsite\">Carole<\/a> for passing along <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=519&amp;ncid=519&amp;e=34&amp;u=\/ap\/20031021\/ap_on_re_us\/washington_s_whiskey_3\" Target=\"Offsite\">this story<\/a> about distillers at Mount Vernon recreating George Washington&#8217;s whisky recipe.  One item in the article surprised me. I knew Washington made whisky, but I didn&#8217;t know he didn&#8217;t start until after he retired from politics.  I always assumed that he had been the first US politician to realize that a good supply of whisky was essential to any campaign.  The article says that the whisky will be aged for &#8220;a couple of years&#8221; before being auctioned off.  I suppose that it will go to collectors who aren&#8217;t planning to drink it, so it doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s a little rough.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Carole for passing along this story about distillers at Mount Vernon recreating George Washington&#8217;s whisky recipe. One item in the article surprised me. I knew Washington made whisky, but I didn&#8217;t know he didn&#8217;t start until after he retired from politics. I always assumed that he had been the first US politician to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=286\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Washington\\&#8217;s Whisky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-4C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}