{"id":7068,"date":"2014-02-24T21:55:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T08:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2014-04-17T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T11:01:11","slug":"sunday-reading-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/02\/24\/sunday-reading-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7070\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Void-Stares-Also.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[7068]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7070\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/02\/24\/sunday-reading-2\/the-void-stares-also\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Void-Stares-Also.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,575\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Void Stares Also\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The Void Stares Also&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Void Stares Also&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Void-Stares-Also-300x168.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Void-Stares-Also.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7070\" alt=\"The Void Stares Also (Wellington harbour, 20 February 2014)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Void-Stares-Also.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Void-Stares-Also.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Void-Stares-Also-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And when you gaze long into the fog, the fog gazes also into you. (Or something like that.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m\u00a0<em>compiling<\/em> them on Sunday, anyway.<a name=\"tag-sunday140223-dagger\"><\/a><a href=\"#fn-sunday140223-dagger\"><sup>\u2020<\/sup><\/a> Unless you live in a very-tardy timezone or wait a while, I guess you&#8217;re not actually reading them on one. It&#8217;s been a couple of rather overwhelming weeks here at\u00a0<em>Beer Diary<\/em> HQ; busy, distracting, exhausting and gradually restoring \u2014 all in ways both good and bad and bit-of-both-actually. Wellington itself has been all over the place, too, so I haven&#8217;t felt alone. The above was a few days ago; fog so thick you nearly forgot the City existed\u00a0<em>just there<\/em> and sights around the harbour were awesomely transformed as everything took on more of an Edge Of The World feel. Today, conversely, was another <a title=\"'Everything in its right place'\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/11\/23\/everything-in-its-right-place\/\" target=\"_blank\">do-some-gardening and jump-off-a-pier day<\/a>.<a name=\"tag-sunday140223-1\"><\/a><a href=\"#fn-sunday140223-1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George and I will be back shortly with the season-finale Year In Review episode of <a title=\"Beer Diary Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">the podcast<\/a> \u2014 now&#8217;s the time to send in memory-jogging \/ two-cents-having suggestions for your Beer Of The Year <em>and<\/em> Glass Of Beer Of The Year,<a name=\"tag-sunday140223-2\"><\/a><a href=\"#fn-sunday140223-2\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a> plus any general feedback you might have on format, distribution, and all that. <a title=\"Beer Diary Podcast s03e08\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/02\/04\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e08\/\" target=\"_blank\">There could well be a beer in it for you.<\/a> Meanwhile, though, there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thebottleneck.net\/2014\/01\/17\/the-bottleneck-awards-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Bottleneck Awards 2013:<\/strong><\/a> Speaking of years-in-review, I&#8217;m pretty sure this is my favourite. Dylan&#8217;s got a wonderful knack for pointed rambling, and y&#8217;all should be reading him regularly.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/brewhui.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/17\/paddling-with-parps-a-k-a-kit-creation-part-three\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>That&#8217;s a paddlin&#8217;:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0A charming account of a (minor) part of gearing-up to homebrew. Which I <em>still<\/em> haven&#8217;t gotten myself around to, somehow. Jase&#8217;s previous project \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/thebeermoneyblog.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Beer Money blog<\/a> \u2014 was a great ride, and his latest seems to be coming along nicely.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ale.gd\/blog\/2014\/01\/camra-can-it-be-part-of-the-equality-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beer &amp; Gender in baby steps:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0There&#8217;s been a little soul-searching (and back-seat soul-searching) about CAMRA lately, and I thought this was a nice sketch of some super-simple little things that the organisation could do to help the cause of equality. And, generally, if you <em>can<\/em> help, you should.<a name=\"tag-sunday140223-3\"><\/a><a href=\"#fn-sunday140223-3\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a> And there are ways every person, business, organisation \u2014 or\u00a0<em>thing<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 can help. And sexism in the beer industry can get <a title=\"'The Moa IPO'\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/10\/13\/the-moa-ipo\/\" target=\"_blank\">fucking grim and\u00a0<em>sad<\/em><\/a>. So let&#8217;s all help, please.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guests of BrewDog:<\/strong>\u00a0Three dispatches appeared this weekend \u2014 from <a href=\"http:\/\/zythophile.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/22\/the-discreet-charm-offensive-of-the-brewdoggies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martyn Cornell<\/a> (him of the indispensable myth-busting beer history), <a href=\"http:\/\/maltworms.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/02\/brewdog-diacetyl-machine-and-all.html\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Tierney-Jones<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.co.nz\/2014\/02\/brewdog-more-than-meets-eye.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Alexander<\/a> (a.k.a. Tandleman; someone who often curmudges a little hard even for\u00a0<em>me<\/em> \u2014 see, e.g., his objections on the above beer-and-gender piece) \u2014 after a writers&#8217; trip to BrewDog HQ and environs. They&#8217;re all worth reading, but I can&#8217;t help but be a little sad at how <em>credulous<\/em> they all are. Admittedly,\u00a0I&#8217;m (now) firmly skeptical of those self-styled &#8220;punks&#8221;, but those pieces all soft-pedal the authors&#8217; prior concerns (most hiding them in hyperlinks, rather than acknowledging them more directly) and come with shamefully piss-weak disclaimers<a name=\"tag-sunday140223-4\"><\/a><a href=\"#fn-sunday140223-4\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/a> that the trip \u2014 a significant value in travel, accommodation, goodies and access \u2014 was all on BrewDog&#8217;s dime.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aleofatime.com\/2014\/02\/09\/podcast-sode-5-kippers-saucy-santa-and-brewdog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kippers, etc.:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Speaking of BrewDog, you&#8217;d do well to also (or\u00a0<em>instead<\/em>) spend your minutes with Luke and Dave&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Ale Of A Time<\/em> podcast. The most-recent episode, among other delights, spends a good while on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brewdog.com\/blog-article\/hello-my-name-is-vladimir\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Hello, My Name is Vladimir&#8217;<\/a>, one of those marketing stunt beers the BrewDogs are so fond of, which \u2014 in Luke&#8217;s estimation, and with which I completely agree \u2014 just horribly misses the mark.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thewireless.co.nz\/themes\/knowledge\/may-i-politely-inform-you-that-you-are-wrong-to-like-the-things-you-like\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>On conflicts of interest, kind of:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Local theatredude Uther Dean<a name=\"tag-sunday140223-5\"><\/a><a href=\"#fn-sunday140223-5\"><sup>5<\/sup><\/a> on the many weirdnesses of &#8220;criticism&#8221; and review, the tension (but inevitability) of having people who both create and critique,<a name=\"tag-sunday140223-6\"><\/a><a href=\"#fn-sunday140223-6\"><sup>6<\/sup><\/a> and the elation and despair that producers subject themselves to when they read responses to the work. It&#8217;s not even vaguely about beer, but it could so-easily be.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diversity of response:<\/strong> The <a href=\"http:\/\/literatureandlibation.com\/2014\/01\/09\/announcement-the-session-84-alternative-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest round of\u00a0<em>The Session<\/em><\/a> mandated non-traditional &#8220;reviews&#8221; (i.e.,\u00a0<em>not<\/em> reviews) of beer, and there&#8217;ll be gems for all tastes among the roundup (which came in <a href=\"http:\/\/literatureandlibation.com\/2014\/02\/18\/the-session-84-round-up-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/literatureandlibation.com\/2014\/02\/19\/the-session-84-round-up-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">parts<\/a>) \u2014 on which I&#8217;m only really just getting started. I didn&#8217;t manage to participate, but it&#8217;s probably obvious that I&#8217;m not hugely fond of traditional beer reviews \u2014 the kind that end in stars, numbers, or bottlecaps&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/capital-life\/the-beerhive\/9722238\/Great-promo-but-with-a-catch\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Catch One-point-eight Million:<\/strong><\/a> <em>This<\/em> is why <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/01\/31\/how-to-buy-a-beer\/\" target=\"_blank\">brand loyalty sucks<\/a>. They \u2014 by which we presently mean &#8220;Tui&#8221; (i.e., D.B., i.e., Heineken), but it extrapolates out perfectly \u2014 foster it in you at\u00a0<em>your<\/em> expense for\u00a0<em>their<\/em> sake. It would&#8217;ve been perfectly possible to run the &#8216;Catch a Million&#8217; promotion at-or-close-to cost, and it&#8217;d have been just as brand-building and just as fun. But no, they can&#8217;t help extract wodges of extra cash from their &#8220;fans&#8221; on the way, showing a cynical and weirdly hateful fundamental approach. [Late-breaking update, a few hours later: see the comment below for the additional relevant fact that you could apparently get a t-shirt for free, which alters the math substantially. I&#8217;ll have to re-visit this particular case, but brand loyalty is generally still bad for you.]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/capital-life\/the-beerhive\/9746697\/Buy-it-hide-it-forget-about-it-then-drink-it\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cellaring, accidental or otherwise:<\/strong><\/a> The Beerhive&#8217;s\u00a0other half here offers so thoughts on cellaring beer \u2014 with my dodgy memory, I&#8217;m particularly blessed in the &#8220;forget about it&#8221; department, which has led to some amazing aged beers deep in my Stash. You can see that Kieran<a name=\"tag-sunday140223-7\"><\/a><a href=\"#fn-sunday140223-7\"><sup>7<\/sup><\/a> recommends &#8216;Bigfoot&#8217;, tempering the &#8220;don&#8217;t age hoppy beers&#8221; conventional wisdom with the reality that these things just\u00a0<em>change<\/em> \u2014 it&#8217;s up to you and the sensory subjectivity of your own brain whether that&#8217;s a good thing. (But as a tangential side-note, can we please end the practice of Googling for vaguely-related images and just slapping them in an online piece without attribution? See <a title=\"@PicPedant\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PicPedant\" target=\"_blank\">@PicPedant<\/a> on the Twittermachine, for one person&#8217;s heroic struggle towards that worthy end.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theappendix.net\/blog\/2014\/2\/darwins-children-drew-vegetable-battles-on-the-origin-of-species\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>And finally, an irrelevancy:<\/strong><\/a> Because I&#8217;m a big believer in the primacy of handwritten originals, and a massive natural selection nerd \u2014 though equally much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0160nxk\" target=\"_blank\">a Wallace fan<\/a> as a Darwin one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"fn-sunday140223-dagger\"><\/a><strong>\u2020:<\/strong> Well, that&#8217;s when I <em>started<\/em>. Let&#8217;s ignore that it&#8217;s &#8220;now&#8221; Monday evening; time is an illusion, self-imposed deadlines triply so. (To borrow again from Douglas, and to merge and mangle his quotes.)\u00a0<a href=\"#tag-sunday140223-dagger\">\u2191<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"fn-sunday140223-1\"><\/a><strong>1:<\/strong> By which I mean it was, for the most part, sunny and warm. Which is just different from rainy and grey, not &#8220;better&#8221;. I&#8217;m all for diversity and subjectivity, after all, and am only lately myself really starting to &#8216;get&#8217; summer, and find a way to fit myself properly into it.\u00a0<a href=\"#tag-sunday140223-1\">\u2191<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"fn-sunday140223-2\"><\/a><strong>2:<\/strong> That might seem an obtuse doubling-up, but it&#8217;s a distinction that&#8217;s served us well for the last two years, and we&#8217;re (probably) sticking to it. Meanwhile, recording our Year In Review in <i>March<\/i> was never the explicit plan, but it seems now to be cemented as Tradition. And I like it; too many Best Of Last Years seem blatted out to meet deadlines. Nuts to them, and to that.\u00a0<a href=\"#tag-sunday140223-2\">\u2191<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"fn-sunday140223-3\"><\/a><strong>3:<\/strong> See, e.g., <em>Spiderman<\/em>.\u00a0<a href=\"#tag-sunday140223-3\">\u2191<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"fn-sunday140223-4\"><\/a><strong>4:<\/strong> I don&#8217;t quite know which is worse; one is all-too-subtle and just inline of the main text, the other two are at the end (past a good number of readers&#8217; scroll-bothering, I&#8217;m sure), and dropped down significantly in font size \u2014 one even vaguely slagging off the <em>mere idea<\/em> of a disclosure. I&#8217;m sorry (n.b.: not actually sorry), but disclosures are utterly fucking mandatory, and need to be front and centre \u2014 and not just of the text, I&#8217;d argue; they&#8217;d do well to remain in the <em>tone<\/em>. It&#8217;s not difficult.\u00a0<a href=\"#tag-sunday140223-4\">\u2191<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"fn-sunday140223-5\"><\/a><strong>5:<\/strong> Who directed an utterly fuckin&#8217; excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/myaccomplice.co.nz\/joseph-k\/\" target=\"_blank\">adaptation of\u00a0<em>The Trial<\/em><\/a>, just by the by.\u00a0<a href=\"#tag-sunday140223-5\">\u2191<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"fn-sunday140223-6\"><\/a><strong>6:<\/strong> Though I&#8217;m often thinking of the potential conflicts and always trying to navigate them, I do hasten to point out that I&#8217;m no &#8220;creator&#8221; (of beer), despite working in a brewery \u2014 I&#8217;m a functionary, not a decision-maker; a bureaucrat rather than a stakeholder. But I do make <em>words<\/em> and whinge about words, so his points nonetheless resonate \u2014 and, if you ask me, some of our best sources of words-about-beer\u00a0<em>do<\/em> also brew the stuff.\u00a0<a href=\"#tag-sunday140223-6\">\u2191<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"fn-sunday140223-7\"><\/a><strong>7:<\/strong> <a title=\"Beer Diary Podcast s01e07\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/26\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e07\/\" target=\"_blank\">Friend of the show<\/a> and no fan of the summer months, which nicely brings me back to fn1.\u00a0<a href=\"#tag-sunday140223-7\">\u2191<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m\u00a0compiling them on Sunday, anyway.\u2020 Unless you live in a very-tardy timezone or wait a while, I guess you&#8217;re not actually reading them on one. It&#8217;s been a couple of rather overwhelming weeks here at\u00a0Beer Diary HQ; busy, distracting, exhausting and gradually restoring \u2014 all in ways both good and bad and bit-of-both-actually. Wellington &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/02\/24\/sunday-reading-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Reading<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[55],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-7068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-finds","tag-sunday-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7353,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/08\/09\/weekend-re-reading-beer-for-a-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":7068,"position":0},"title":"Weekend (re-)Reading: Beer For A Year","author":"Phil","date":"August 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been meaning to re-read Alice Galletly's marvellous 'Beer For A Year' for ages. Despite best intentions, my own output is still at a low ebb \u2014 you should see the brimming Drafts folder I have on here1 \u2014 which often prompts me to go back through things I've enjoyed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mediawatch&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mediawatch","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/interesting-finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Beer For A Year masthead","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beer-For-A-Year-masthead-300x159.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6950,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/02\/02\/sunday-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":7068,"position":1},"title":"Sunday Reading","author":"Phil","date":"February 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"They treated the rest of that day as though it was a Sunday, that is to say what you should expect of a Sunday. You need time for big and complicated new concepts to shake themselves down in your brain slowly, without damaging what is already there. \u2014 Terry Pratchett\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mediawatch&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mediawatch","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/interesting-finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Pretty Things 'Jack d'Or' (My house, 15 December 2013)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pretty-Things-Jack-d-Or-240x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5895,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/15\/sunday-reading-130915\/","url_meta":{"origin":7068,"position":2},"title":"Sunday Reading","author":"Phil","date":"September 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a vaguely productive but incredibly restoring weekend, here. I've been going through the dimmer recesses of my fridge and finally pulling out things like Brewaucracy's 'In Triplicate' \u2014 pictured, at right, not too long ago and still going as I write this \u2014and belatedly realised that last weekend was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mediawatch&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mediawatch","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/interesting-finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Brewaucracy 'In Triplicate'","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brewaucracy-In-Triplicate-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5873,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/02\/sunday-reading-130901\/","url_meta":{"origin":7068,"position":3},"title":"&#8216;Sunday&#8217; Reading","author":"Phil","date":"September 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Attempt to start a new weekly tradition, miss your self-imposed deadline for just its second incarnation. That does sound a lot like a 'me' thing to do. But in my defence, it was my birthday. Well, my birthday\u00a0weekend \u2014 I took liberties with the calendar when the realities of work\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mediawatch&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mediawatch","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/interesting-finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Moon Dog 'Black Lung III'","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Dog-Black-Lung-III-300x167.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6119,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/10\/28\/sabbath-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":7068,"position":4},"title":"Sabbath Reading","author":"Phil","date":"October 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been on a run of six-point-something-day work weeks, lately; some self-inflicted, some externally imposed. Still not a word of complaint, though \u2014 but equally few hacked out to put up here. 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