{"id":5362,"date":"2009-04-12T17:14:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T21:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2009-04-12T17:14:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T21:14:53","slug":"i-abstain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5362","title":{"rendered":"I Abstain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moreintelligentlife.com\/story\/alcohol\">give up alcohol for a month<\/a> ? <\/p>\n<p>I've given-up booze from the day after Thanksgiving (a.k.a, the 4th Friday in November) till Christmas Eve, the past two years. The first year I did it because we had such a blowout at Thanksgiving that I felt I needed some detox time. The second year I did it ... for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>How was it? Well, it's boring. It makes parties difficult - and there are always a lot of parties in December. It takes a lot of the fun out of going out to eat - a steak and a Coke just isn't the same as a steak and a Cabernet. But it saves a lot of money! I don't really notice any physical or mental changes; I don't feel better, or smarter, or livelier. I just wake up a bit earlier on weekend mornings. It does lower my tolerance for alcohol tremendously, though; once the month ends, the first beer will give me a serious headrush. <\/p>\n<p>So basically, it's a challenge: a test of willpower and stick-to-it-iveness. Worth it? I dunno. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could you give up alcohol for a month ? I've given-up booze from the day after Thanksgiving (a.k.a, the 4th Friday in November) till Christmas Eve, the past two years. The first year I did it because we had such a blowout at Thanksgiving that I felt I needed some detox time. The second year [&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-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}