{"id":14832,"date":"2014-12-31T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=14832"},"modified":"2015-01-12T22:16:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T09:16:41","slug":"station-ident-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/12\/31\/station-ident-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Station Ident: Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pictured: fireworks commemorating something even more absurd than arbitrarily incrementing the calendar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So it’s that time of year again; the nominal end. I’m coming to you now \u2014 with some difficulty, since there’s an unresolved glitch in my blog software and the app-plus-tablet workaround is clunky enough to spawn whole new profanities1<\/sup><\/a><\/a> \u2014 from an excruciatingly welcome holiday. 2014 turned out, shall we say, sub-optimal in a number of ways from trifling to towering. Grand plans were, as a result, sidelined momentarily or thwarted entirely and it proved tricky to find the brainspace and the peculiar timing required to get much done here.<\/p>\n

But no matter, right? Because you’ve all been reading Dylan’s ‘The Bottleneck’<\/a>, and Jase’s ‘Brew Hui’<\/a>, and Jono’s articles<\/a>, and Dominic’s rants<\/a>, and \u2014 I could go on. Any number of things through the year reaffirmed the notion that (to invert Hunter’s Maxim) beer people are good people2<\/sup><\/a><\/a> and kept me interested, enthused and passionate about this stuff as a topic, a subculture, a pass-time \u2014 and an enjoyably-elaborate way of lightening the wallet and filling the bladder \u2014 even as I’ve been bystander more often than partisan. I’m also stubborn enough, and sufficiently unfazed by deadlines, that I’m happy just transferring most of 2014’s To Do List over into next year, anyhow.<\/p>\n

However you choose to mark the calendar-change this evening \u2014 if indeed at all \u2014 I hope you have excellent company, delicious solids and liquids to enjoy, and that your next twelve months are an improvement on the last, whatever kind of baseline they proved to be. And if you’re out and about, be extra nice to your bar staff; odds are they’re overdue a good break. Cheers!<\/p>\n

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<\/a>1:<\/strong> Though it’s still awesomely futuristic, I have to admit even as I write-off proper linkages and footnote formatting as utterly beyond me. Sorry, style-guide pedants; I hope you still count me as one of you <\/del>\u00a0and it only took me 12 days \u2014 nary a blip, in geological time; let’s have some perspective, here \u2014 to find and (it seems!) fix the bug, and regain finer fiddly-bits control.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>2:<\/strong> With special mention to Emma and George, who first transcend “beer people” and then also belong in the smaller-still “best people” category.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it’s that time of year again; the nominal end. I’m coming to you now \u2014 with some difficulty, since there’s an unresolved glitch in my blog software and the app-plus-tablet workaround is clunky enough to spawn whole new profanities1 \u2014 from an excruciatingly welcome holiday. 2014 turned out, shall we say, sub-optimal in a … Continue reading Station Ident: Reboot<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14832"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15253,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832\/revisions\/15253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}