{"id":19,"date":"2007-05-23T03:39:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T07:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/myths\/2007\/05\/23\/we-shall-all-be-sober\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T03:42:05","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T07:42:05","slug":"we-shall-all-be-sober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/2007\/05\/23\/we-shall-all-be-sober\/","title":{"rendered":"We Shall All Be Sober"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon first listening to The Mountain Goats&#8217; <em>We Shall All Be Healed<\/em> I was struck by the almost complete lack of any mention of alcohol &#8211; the\u00a0only reference is to a man who &#8220;worked in a liquor store.&#8221;\u00a0 The juice of the grape and the grain have figured prominently in Darnielle&#8217;s oeuvre, and its consumption was the favored activity of the benighted Alpha Couple, consumption so prodigious that their livers seemed unable to survive a single song, let alone the dozen albums through which they were forced to suffer.\u00a0 Why the mainstream media has not pounced on this development baffles me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon first listening to The Mountain Goats&#8217; We Shall All Be Healed I was struck by the almost complete lack of any mention of alcohol &#8211; the\u00a0only reference is to a man who &#8220;worked in a liquor store.&#8221;\u00a0 The juice of the grape and the grain have figured prominently in Darnielle&#8217;s oeuvre, and its consumption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}