{"id":1018,"date":"2013-10-05T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2013-09-27T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T18:58:02","slug":"christopher-hitchens-on-rules-for-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/1018\/quotes\/christopher-hitchens-on-rules-for-drinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Hitchens: On rules for drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,&#8217; as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don&#8217;t drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don&#8217;t drink if you have the blues: it&#8217;s a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It&#8217;s not true that you shouldn&#8217;t drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can&#8217;t properly remember last night. (If you\u00a0<em>really<\/em>\u00a0don&#8217;t remember, that&#8217;s an even worse sign.) Avoid all narcotics: these make you more boring rather than less and are not designed\u2014as are the grape and the grain\u2014to enliven company. Be careful about up-grading too far to single malt Scotch: when you are voyaging in rough countries it won&#8217;t be easily available. Never even think about driving a car if you have taken a drop. It&#8217;s much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don&#8217;t know quite why this is true but it just is. Don&#8217;t ever be responsible for it.<\/p>\n<p>from\u00a0<em>Hitch-22: A Memoir<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,&#8217; as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don&#8217;t drink on an empty <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/1018\/quotes\/christopher-hitchens-on-rules-for-drinking\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[250],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-rules-for-drinking","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}