{"id":946,"date":"2003-07-17T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2010-06-04T02:03:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T01:03:34","slug":"946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/946\/","title":{"rendered":"A drink at the American bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>King of the hangovers!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how my head feels today after some industrial strength quaffing last night. First stop was the New Statesman New Media Awards which were, frankly, a little dull. Then my chum Dave Wilby (editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internet-magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Magazine<\/a>) suggested we check out the nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/hotelsdeluxe.com\/Savoy\/restaurant.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Bar<\/a> in the super-posh Savoy on the Strand. I was convinced that a scruffy oik like me wouldn&#8217;t get past the doorman, but we had no problems getting in. The bar was opened in the late 1890s and &#8216;Dry Martini&#8217; and &#8216;White Lady&#8217; drinks were invented there in the 1920s. In the bar, Maurice the a pianist crooned away, but turned out to be a cheeky scamp with a great sense of humour. As soon as he saw us he broke into a lounge version of &#8216;Anarchy in the UK&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>Several <em>phenomenally fab<\/em> cocktails later, we were suitably hammered, but sadly, much lighter of pocket.<\/p>\n<p>See how Dave&#8217;s getting on with his hangover on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internet-magazine.com\/webcam.html\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Mag webcam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King of the hangovers! That&#8217;s how my head feels today after some industrial strength quaffing last night. First stop was the New Statesman New Media Awards which were, frankly, a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-946","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}