{"id":779,"date":"2006-10-04T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/04\/comrade-pour-me-another\/"},"modified":"2006-10-04T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T15:53:10","slug":"comrade-pour-me-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/04\/comrade-pour-me-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Comrade, pour me another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian officials have decided that enough is enough, and they have announced last call for Latvians.\u00c2\u00a0 Russian customs officers have discovered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/10\/04\/vodka_pipeline\/\">mile-long vodka pipeline<\/a> across the border to Latvia.\u00c2\u00a0 Smugglers (or brilliant entrepreneurs as I like to call these guys) managed to lay this pipe 6 feet underground somehow unnoticed.\u00c2\u00a0 It would still be unnoticed if someone hadn&#8217;t had the bright idea of planting some trees.\u00c2\u00a0 Just how do you go about digging a six foot trench across international borders and not get noticed, anyway?\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, this is Canada, and you could probably export Saskatchewan to the U.S. without anybody noticing for a few days at least (that&#8217;s not to slight Saskatchewaners, but rather is meant to describe just how undefended our border is.\u00c2\u00a0 At least for now.)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I realize that the last three (!) posts have been about alcohol, and yes, I am seeking counseling about my alcoblogism(tm).\u00c2\u00a0 Really, it&#8217;s just a strange coincidence.\u00c2\u00a0 Really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian officials have decided that enough is enough, and they have announced last call for Latvians.\u00c2\u00a0 Russian customs officers have discovered a mile-long vodka pipeline across the border to Latvia.\u00c2\u00a0 Smugglers (or brilliant entrepreneurs as I like to call these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/04\/comrade-pour-me-another\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-cz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}