{"id":580,"date":"2009-08-06T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T18:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2009-08-06T12:39:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T18:39:40","slug":"my-blood-runs-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"My blood runs cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090804\/ap_on_re_la_am_ca\/cb_antigua_mount_obama\">My memory has just been sold.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My last duty station in the Navy was Antigua. I should see if I still have my map of the island anywhere. Antigua wasn&#8217;t as lush as some of the other islands, but it was still an interesting place to be. You know, it&#8217;s too bad nobody had a Mackeson at the <a href=\"online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124891169018991961.html\">beer summit<\/a> &#8211; it would have given me another silly Obama-Antigua link. Mackeson had a series of brief, somewhat suggestive radio ads playing when I was stationed there, and I still recall one of them: imagine a sultry female voice with a Caribbean accent saying, &#8220;Men, drink Mackeson. My man gets some every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, they don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like that, anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My memory has just been sold. My last duty station in the Navy was Antigua. I should see if I still have my map of the island anywhere. Antigua wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-its-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}