{"id":618,"date":"2012-07-12T20:51:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T03:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2017-04-04T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:30:19","slug":"beerfridge-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/beerfridge-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Beerfridge Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"I swim atop a malty sea\" src=\"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/images\/2beer-poems.jpg\" alt=\"you sit with friends asking if you still have it\" width=\"240\" height=\"735\" \/>As part of my two-years-long-and-counting spring cleaning exercise, I&#8217;m thinning my archives. There&#8217;s enough paper to make a papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 blue whale and a shredded sea for it to swim in.<\/p>\n<p>Today, two poems copied down from the fridge at the old condo (in the glory days when my only fridge was also my beer fridge). With luck, my two current batches of homebrew will be ready in just over a month to toast the 10-year anniversary of these bubbly outpourings.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><em>August 15, 2002<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I swim atop<br \/>\na malty sea<br \/>\n<\/strong>me blood like<\/em><br \/>\n<em> a flood of heady<\/em><br \/>\n<em> bitter lather<\/em><br \/>\n<em> hops in me skin<\/em><br \/>\n<em> fresh Ale Cascades<\/em><br \/>\n<em> over me lips<\/em><br \/>\n<em> into me mouth<\/em><br \/>\n<em> &amp; I am GOOD<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>special BREWS<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00a0bottle one dream<\/em><br \/>\n<em> put it there<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and get gone from here<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>you sit with friends<\/em><br \/>\n<em> asking<\/em><br \/>\n<em> if you still<\/em><br \/>\n<em> have it<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>you tell them<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I am sipping it!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and drink<\/em><br \/>\n<em> of this happy juice<\/em><br \/>\n<em> for all of your days<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clearly the Homebrewer&#8217;s Association novelty beer-poem magnets came in handy that summer.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading. Cheers,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5 alignnone\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Greg\" src=\"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/images\/greg_signed72.jpg\" alt=\"Greg\" width=\"72\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; me blood like a flood of heady bitter lather hops in me skin &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}