{"id":242,"date":"2008-11-10T15:42:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-11-10T15:42:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T19:42:32","slug":"gin-there-and-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/gin-there-and-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Gin, there and here"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was supposed to go back to the island this weekend for the hotel’s first-ever juniper festival<\/a>, a “let’s all whitewash the fence” kind of deal in which participants forage for wild juniper berries, for later (ostensible) use in Death’s Door gin<\/a>. But I just couldn’t get it together. It looked to be cold and sleety; I can’t afford to rent a car; is a 12-hour drive (roundtrip) really useful for 36 hours of island time? All good reasons. But, I think I’m also just not ready. Right now the summer feels preserved in the amber of August sunsets. So sue me if I want to keep a little bit of it safe in my imagination; it’s getting nasty down here and those cracks in the casements haven’t magically fixed themselves.<\/p>\n

However, if anyone’s interested (or, reading), Death’s Door will be in Chicago next weekend, for the annual Family Farmed Expo<\/a>. Brian Ellison’s doing a panel on “locavore drinking” with Goose Island<\/a>‘s Greg Hall, Wild Blossom Meadery<\/a>‘s Greg Fischer (who I wrote a bit about here<\/a>), and superstar mixologist Adam Seger<\/a>, and I’m assuming they’ll have a booth in the exhibits hall as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was supposed to go back to the island this weekend for the hotel’s first-ever juniper festival, a “let’s all whitewash the fence” kind of deal in which participants forage for wild juniper berries, for later (ostensible) use in Death’s Door gin. But I just couldn’t get it together. It looked to be cold and … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[313,49,13],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaths-door-spirits","category-washington-island","tag-deaths-door-spirits","tag-family-farmed","tag-washington-hotel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}