{"id":4781,"date":"2012-04-30T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T07:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2012-04-30T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T07:40:27","slug":"the-siren-call-of-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/the-siren-call-of-wine","title":{"rendered":"The siren call of wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMGP6901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4787\" title=\"IMGP6901\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMGP6901.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMGP6901.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMGP6901-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMGP6901-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMGP6901-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wine has a strange ability to draw people in. To win their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t quite understand it, but there\u2019s something special about wine. Wine makes people want to work hard for low pay, just because they love the stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It makes them want to study hard educating themselves.<\/p>\n<p>It causes people to travel the world\u2019s wine regions for no other reason than curiosity and passion.<\/p>\n<p>Wine&#8217;s\u00a0siren call leads people to change career, leaving secure jobs for precarious freelance lifestyles, or working the land and making wine, or opening economically risky wine bars or shops.<\/p>\n<p>I can split my life into two rather distinct periods: before I was hooked by wine, and after.<\/p>\n<p>Is there another drink or food item that has the same magnetic appeal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine has a strange ability to draw people in. To win their hearts. I don\u2019t quite understand it, but there\u2019s something special about wine. Wine makes people want to work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4788,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}