{"id":91,"date":"2020-09-28T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T12:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2020-09-28T12:36:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T12:36:22","slug":"do-i-have-a-drinking-problem-sign-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/28\/do-i-have-a-drinking-problem-sign-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I have a drinking problem?  Sign #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you look at the ABV (alchohol by volume) and select your beverage of choice primarily by what has the highest amount of alcohol.  You might have a drinking problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can tell you which beers\/ciders\/wines have the most alcohol. I stopped drinking liquor a few years ago after it became too obvious that I was going through gallons size jugs of gin and tequila more quickly than &#8220;normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Craft brews and ciders were my favorite. Almost always they were higher in alcohol, plus you are supporting a local business, yay!  At at a tasting room, I would proclaim my disdain for sweet drinks, preferring dry ciders or bitter beers. Ironically, both of these preferences usually align with a higher alcohol content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During my years of &#8220;moderation&#8221; and bargaining with myself, <strong>I would promise myself that I would only drink one drink a night.<\/strong>  Of course, I needed to make this count so I avoided buying anything under 6% ABV, trying to find 7-8% was preferable.  If you are reading this blog, I probably don&#8217;t have to tell you that the one drink a night promise didn&#8217;t last long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you find yourself eschewing a low-alcohol option so you don&#8217;t fill up on some weak sauce, you might have a drinking problem.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look at the ABV (alchohol by volume) and select your beverage of choice primarily by what has the highest amount of alcohol. You might have a drinking problem. I can tell you which beers\/ciders\/wines have the most alcohol. I stopped drinking liquor a few years ago after it became too obvious that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[19,21,20,22],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-signs-of-a-drinking-problem","tag-drinking-problem","tag-moderate-drinking","tag-moderation","tag-one-drink-an-night"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcor7Q-1t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}