{"id":416,"date":"2008-06-05T09:49:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T09:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2008-06-05T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T09:49:23","slug":"alcohol-is-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/alcohol-is-good-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol is good for you &#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the Swedes (lovers of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akvavit\">aquavit<\/a>) have done the research and concluded that alcohol in moderation &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/7435002.stm\">cuts the risk of arthritis<\/a>&#8220;.  The qualification that it should be in moderation is important, particularly because alcohol, a toxin or poison, is the cause of many social problems and disease.<\/p>\n<p>Though once a teetotaller, today I prefer a more liberal approach to moderate enjoyment of the variety of life.  And even the poison alcohol can have its benefits: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_vino_veritas\">&#8220;In vino veritas&#8221;<\/a> (in wine is truth &#8211; or after a few drinks the truth comes out).  And as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_franklin\">Ben Franklin<\/a> said &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkexist.com\/quotation\/beer_is_proof_that_god_loves_us_and_wants_us_to\/146025.html\">Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the Swedes (lovers of aquavit) have done the research and concluded that alcohol in moderation &#8220;cuts the risk of arthritis&#8220;. The qualification that it should be in moderation is important, particularly because alcohol, a toxin or poison, is the cause of many social problems and disease. Though once a teetotaller, today I prefer a &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/alcohol-is-good-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alcohol is good for you &#8230;?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-6I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}