{"id":6548,"date":"2013-12-23T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2013-12-30T19:59:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T06:59:53","slug":"station-ident-beached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/12\/23\/station-ident-beached\/","title":{"rendered":"Station Ident: Beached"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disappearing handrails at Dee Why beach, Sydney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve taken temporary refuge<\/a>1<\/sup><\/a> in a country so emphatically beachy\u2020<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0that it resists any attempts us monkeys make to lay infrastructure on the shore. There’s always plenty of “research” to be done while I’m here \u2014 I can confirm, for example, that Toohey’s Extra Dry (“Ted”, to its friends) does<\/i> have contexts in which it’s perfectly fine and lovely<\/a>,<\/a>2<\/sup><\/a> and that the Murray’s bar in Manly has morphed significantly<\/a> since my last visit (though not obviously to the worse, at all). More-exotic explorations to follow, and possibly also some things to upload here while I’m away, since we have a podcast in the bag and I’ve got several drafts (some ranty, some rapturous) I may find time to hack away at.<\/p>\n

But mostly it’s a holiday, in that particular time of year rich with people-to-see and plenty of food and all sorts of idiosyncratic traditions. I’ve just indulged in one of mine, re-watching Seinfeld’s ‘The Strike’ episode<\/a>,<\/a>3<\/sup><\/a> and so should take the time to with you all a happy Festivus and a bloody marvellous holiday season all round. Since I always used to work right through what everyone else called “the break”; I always have to ask that everyone be especially nice to their bar staff and everyone else who keeps the world ticking over \u2014 and if you are<\/em> one of\u00a0those people, I hope you have a munter-free and convivial week. Stay safe and as stress-free as possible, and may there be plenty of lovely beers \u2014 to have, and to give. Cheers!<\/p>\n

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<\/a>\u2020:<\/strong> Indeed, it occurs to me \u2014 closer to the writing of this post<\/a> rather than (you know) this one<\/em>, hence the un-numbered footnote \u2014 that I’m in a town that’s basically built on\u00a0fossilised beach<\/em>. The sandstone around here, a sprawling coastal metropolis very-fond of carving motorways about the place, is gorgeous.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>1:<\/strong> If you can call it that. Given my kegtris-technician<\/a> cold-weather constitution and the heatwave Sydney’s having, a lot of effort has to go into simply not spotaneously combusting.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>2:<\/strong> It’ll come as no great shock that these mostly involve a) extremes of temperature outside and b) Ted’s prior existence in the fridge.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>3:<\/strong> No bagel no bagel no bagel<\/em>.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve taken temporary refuge1 in a country so emphatically beachy\u2020\u00a0that it resists any attempts us monkeys make to lay infrastructure on the shore. There’s always plenty of “research” to be done while I’m here \u2014 I can confirm, for example, that Toohey’s Extra Dry (“Ted”, to its friends) does have contexts in which it’s perfectly … Continue reading Station Ident: Beached<\/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-6548","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\/6548","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=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6694,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions\/6694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}