{"id":849,"date":"2007-01-30T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/think-youre-a-big-drinker\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:08:45","slug":"think-youre-a-big-drinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/think-youre-a-big-drinker\/","title":{"rendered":"Think you&#8217;re a big drinker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You aren&#8217;t.  Not really.  Not compared to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com\/issues\/10_06\/10_06_andre_giant.html\">this guy<\/a>.  You will realize it when you give this link a read.  Oh man, this is crazy.  It&#8217;s an article on the Modern Drunkard Magazine website (no, I&#8217;m not a regular reader, I saw this on <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wired.com\/~r\/TableOfMalcontents\/~3\/82117176\/andre_the_giant.html\">Wired<\/a>) about the legendary drinking exploits of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andre_the_giant\">Andre the Giant<\/a>.  Yes, the wrestler.  He had a disease that caused him to grow far, far beyond the normal human size, obviously.  At over 500 pounds, and looming about 7 feet tall, this man also had an inhuman tolerance for alcohol.  Let me paraphrase the very entertaining article that you should definitely go and read in it&#8217;s entirety.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>demolishing a dozen or so quarts of beer                      as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153warm-up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for a match<\/li>\n<li>During trips Andre consumed beer at the                      incredible rate of a case every ninety minutes, with bottles                      of vodka or top-rate French wine thrown in for variety<\/li>\n<li>once he drank &#8220;119 beers in six hours. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a beer every three                      minutes, non stop&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are lots of really funny stories and anecdotes about this man&#8217;s life, including some funny stories about Hulk Hogan being his little buddy and scampering off to get beer to keep Andre happy so he wouldn&#8217;t hurt anybody.\u00c2\u00a0 His life of course was unusually short because of his disease, but not necessarily a sad one because of the lust for life this guy had.\u00c2\u00a0 Go and read this now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You aren&#8217;t. Not really. Not compared to this guy. You will realize it when you give this link a read. Oh man, this is crazy. It&#8217;s an article on the Modern Drunkard Magazine website (no, I&#8217;m not a regular reader, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/think-youre-a-big-drinker\/\">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-849","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-dH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}