{"id":546,"date":"2010-11-07T20:32:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T01:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/?p=546"},"modified":"2021-04-12T23:57:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:57:34","slug":"the-lost-truth-about-martinis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2010\/11\/07\/the-lost-truth-about-martinis\/","title":{"rendered":"The lost truth about Martinis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Myth:<\/strong> A Martini is any random concoction that strikes your fancy, served in a conical glass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reality:<\/strong> A Martini is gin or vodka, with a hint of vermouth, typically (but not necessarily) served in a conical glass.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the conical glass that makes a Martini.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the ingredients.\u00a0 And the conical glass sucks anyway:\u00a0 it spills too easily.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer gin.\u00a0 James Bond prefers vodka for some reason.\u00a0 True Martini afficionados  seem to think the less vermouth, the better.\u00a0 Some apparently think it sufficient to merely show the Martini the unopened bottle of  vermouth, at a distance not less than 1m.<\/p>\n<p>What is it with restaurants and bars having these big Martini menus, in which all but one, maybe two, of the items in it bear no resemblance whatsoever to a Martini?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth: A Martini is any random concoction that strikes your fancy, served in a conical glass. Reality: A Martini is gin or vodka, with a hint of vermouth, typically (but not necessarily) served in a conical glass. It is not the conical glass that makes a Martini.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the ingredients.\u00a0 And the conical glass sucks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}