{"id":166083,"date":"2022-07-31T19:12:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T00:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=166083"},"modified":"2022-07-31T19:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T00:12:35","slug":"pour-a-glass-of-fortified-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/pour-a-glass-of-fortified-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pour a glass of fortified wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to an English major who long ago lost his gruntle<span id='easy-footnote-1-166083' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/pour-a-glass-of-fortified-wine\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-166083' title='Reference &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/llamabutchers.blogspot.com\/2004\/03\/#108032531451072023&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;\/a&gt;.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> on fourteen years of <a href=\"https:\/\/tpsaye.wordpress.com\/2022\/07\/30\/happy-blogday-to-meeeee\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Port Stands at Your Elbow<\/a>. It&#8217;s one of my daily stops and always worth reading. Before he decanted the port, Robbo wrote at The LLama Butchers. Both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamabutchers.mu.nu\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mu.nu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/llamabutchers.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blogspot<\/a> editions of the LLBs survive (though the pictures and comments are gone) and reward browsing. See, for instance, this touching account of <a href=\"http:\/\/llamabutchers.mu.nu\/archives\/2005_01.php#063475\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a purple dinosaur&#8217;s realization of his true nature<\/a>, or this subtle sociological analysis of <a href=\"https:\/\/llamabutchers.blogspot.com\/2003\/11\/#106968398825536166\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a neglected aspect of Tolkien&#8217;s world<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to an English major who long ago lost his gruntle on fourteen years of The Port Stands at Your Elbow. It&#8217;s one of my daily stops and always worth reading. Before he decanted the port, Robbo wrote at The LLama Butchers. Both the mu.nu and blogspot editions of the LLBs survive (though the pictures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/pour-a-glass-of-fortified-wine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pour a glass of fortified wine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-friends-and-acquaintances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-HcL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166092,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166083\/revisions\/166092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}