{"id":567,"date":"2012-08-16T15:12:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2012\/08\/drinky-linky-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year.html"},"modified":"2012-08-16T15:12:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:12:34","slug":"drinky-linky-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Drinky Linky: The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy National Rum Day! I <a href=\"http:\/\/eatocracy.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/16\/national-rum-day\/\" target=\"_self\">wrote about it<\/a> over at CNN&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/eatocracy.cnn.com\" target=\"_self\">Eatocracy<\/a> site.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>(Also recently, I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/eatocracy.cnn.com\/2012\/07\/19\/national-daiquiri-day\/\" target=\"_self\">National Daiquiri Day<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/eatocracy.cnn.com\/2012\/07\/24\/national-tequila-day\/\" target=\"_self\">National Tequila Day<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/eatocracy.cnn.com\/2012\/07\/27\/national-scotch-day\/\" target=\"_self\">National Scotch Day<\/a>. God bless this fine country of ours.)<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s lots of other interesting things I&#39;ve found on teh interwebs lately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jim Meehan picks his <a href=\"http:\/\/eatocracy.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/16\/10-best-new-bars-in-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_self\">top ten new bars in the US<\/a>. I would consider this a checklist: NoMad and Bellocq are both great, and I would love nothing more to go visit the other eight. Where&#39;s that Powerball ticket again?<\/li>\n<li>Todd Lipman of the Boston Harbor Hotel lists his top <a href=\"http:\/\/eatocracy.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/14\/55-impress-guests-with-expertly-crafted-cocktails-at-home\/\" target=\"_self\">five refreshing summer cocktails<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Here&#39;s a neat <a href=\"http:\/\/eatocracy.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/10\/history-of-ice\/?hpt=ea_c1\" target=\"_self\">rundown of ice in America<\/a> by CNN&#39;s Eden Pontz. With quotes from Richie Boccato, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/hundredweightice.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Hundredweight Ice<\/a> adjacent to <a href=\"http:\/\/dutchkillsbar.com\/main\/\" target=\"_self\">Dutch Kills<\/a> may be worth a look.<\/li>\n<li>Food Republic brings us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodrepublic.com\/2012\/06\/18\/7-ways-drink-aperol-summer\" target=\"_self\">seven ways to drink Aperol<\/a>. Besides the spritzer, that is.&#0160;<\/li>\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/business\/2012\/08\/actually-bloomberg-businessweek-will-not-scold-you-spritzers\/55757\/\" target=\"_self\">spritzers are apparently just fine<\/a> at <em>Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em>&#8230;which news is prompted by<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Economist<\/em>&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21560265?fsrc=scn\/tw_ec\/the_boredom_of_boozeless_business\" target=\"_self\">lament that people aren&#39;t drinking at work<\/a> anymore;<\/li>\n<li>Nice <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/article\/julian-p-van-winkle\" target=\"_self\">profile of Julian Van Winkle<\/a> by Wells Tower in <em>Garden &amp; Gun<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>Doug Quinn, late of P.J. Clarke&#39;s, is <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.grubstreet.com\/2012\/08\/pj-clarkes-bartender-doug-quinn-planning-his-own-project.html\" target=\"_self\">planning a comeback!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hey Mr. Mixologist: <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2012\/07\/19\/video.php\" target=\"_self\">Did you have to go to college for this<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2012\/08\/06\/solid_liquid_lunch_salume_adds_booz.php#photo-1\" target=\"_self\">Boozy sandwiches<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/19\/dale-degroff-introduces-new-bitters\/\" target=\"_self\">Dale DeGroff introduces new pimento bitters<\/a>. I am officially intrigued.<\/li>\n<li>Grub Street asked several bartenders at Tales of the Cocktail (yes, recap post(s) coming soon, I swear) about <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.grubstreet.com\/2012\/07\/tales-of-the-cocktail-2012-bartenders-on-new-drink-trends.html#\" target=\"_self\">their predictions for the future of mixology<\/a>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy National Rum Day! I wrote about it over at CNN&#39;s Eatocracy site.&#0160; (Also recently, I wrote about National Daiquiri Day, National Tequila Day, and National Scotch Day. God bless this fine country of ours.) There&#39;s lots of other interesting things I&#39;ve found on teh interwebs lately: Jim Meehan picks his top ten new bars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seen-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}