{"id":88,"date":"2005-10-17T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2005-10-17T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T16:52:11","slug":"smaller-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Smaller implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/beer.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>As I read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/16\/national\/16games.html?th&#038;emc=th&#038;oref=login\">article<\/a> this morning, a story filled with serious talk of the societal consequences of young people&#8217;s drinking, my only thought was this: college kids these days are total pussies. <\/p>\n<p>When I was in high school, sure I played a few games of Quarters. And, in my twenties, I&#8217;ve been known to participate in a rousing round or two of Asshole. And, yes, we did invent a Lord of the Rings drinking game (&#8220;Anytime one guy puts his hand on another guy&#8217;s shoulder and looks meaningfully into his eyes, DRINK!). But on the whole, when I need a drink, I don&#8217;t need some gimmick to get buzzed. Do new drinkers (or newly legal drinkers) really need something called Beer Pong to feel justified in downing several brewskis? <\/p>\n<p>At the risk of sounding like an old granny, these whippersnappers just slay me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/16\/national\/16games.html?th&#038;emc=th&#038;oref=login\">As Young Adults Drink to Win, Marketers Join In<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I read this article this morning, a story filled with serious talk of the societal consequences of young people&#8217;s drinking, my only thought was this: college kids these days are total pussies. When I was in high school, sure I played a few games of Quarters. And, in my twenties, I&#8217;ve been known to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}