{"id":1442,"date":"2024-07-19T14:09:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/widow-clicquot\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T14:09:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:09:34","slug":"widow-clicquot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/widow-clicquot\/","title":{"rendered":"Widow Clicquot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the last days of my drinking champagne certainly wasn\u2019t doing the job for me anymore. So upon being called to consider this movie, I feel a little like a more extreme version of Dos Equis\u2019 \u201cMost Interesting Man in the World\u201d character, who said, \u201cI don\u2019t always drink beer, but\u2026\u201d Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I have relatively fond recollections of Veuve Clicquot being a relatively affordable REAL CHAMPAGNE, as opposed to its cheap bastard cousin, sparkling wine. Back in 1985 you could get a 375 ml bottle for about 15 bucks, a real bargain for a fledgling freelance writer from Jersey romancing a real New York City Girl. It goes for about 40 bucks now, which I guess I could afford, but I don\u2019t drink, the New York City Girl stopped imbibing herself, and my wonderful wife prefers brandy, whisky, or beer even, which she purchases herself.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the last days of my drinking champagne certainly wasn\u2019t doing the job for me anymore. So upon being called to consider this movie, I feel a little like a more extreme version of Dos Equis\u2019 \u201cMost Interesting Man in the World\u201d character, who said, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[45,55],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama-movies","tag-drama","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}