{"id":1347,"date":"2011-05-14T14:14:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T18:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2011-05-14T14:14:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T18:14:54","slug":"countdown-to-the-rapture-ngm-edition-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to the Rapture, NGM Edition &#8211; Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven days, that&#8217;s all she wrote &#8211; a cosmic ultimatum note!\u00a0 As we plan for our End of Days party on the 21st,\u00a0I&#8217;m highlighting a different thing each day that I&#8217;m NOT GONNA MISS come the Rapture.\u00a0 Please continue to comment with your own NGM thoughts as well &#8211; I&#8217;m keeping the list, and I&#8217;ll tally them up and see what we&#8217;re all least likely to miss at the end of all things.<\/p>\n<p>Number 10:\u00a0 <a title=\"Countdown to the Rapture, NGM Edition \u2013 Day 10\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1310\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump&#8217;s Hair<\/a>.<br \/>\nNumber 9:\u00a0 <a title=\"Countdown to the Rapture, NGM Edition \u2013 Day 9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1324\" target=\"_blank\">People who can&#8217;t drive in bad weather<\/a>.<br \/>\nNumber 8:\u00a0 <a title=\"Countdown to the Rapture, NGM Edition \u2013 Day 8\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1335\" target=\"_blank\">Annoying Facebook status update memes<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Number 7:\u00a0 Cheap Beer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Look, let&#8217;s be blunt:\u00a0 I&#8217;m a snob.\u00a0 I get that.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a beer snob.\u00a0 I used to, by which I mean before I had kids running around underfoot, make my own beer.\u00a0 I grew up in the 1970s, a decade when Americans took their eye off the ball long enough for Budweiser to start putting rice in their beer.\u00a0 I&#8217;m told that an ice cold Bud in the shade was a good thing, back in the 1950s &#8211; and don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a fine thing still.\u00a0 Sex in a canoe is nice too, and just like Bud these days, it&#8217;s fucking close to water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fritz Maytag over with Anchor, along with Jim Koch from Sam Adams and the home brewing movement in the mid 1990s tried to rescue us, and we may be winning the battles for the bottles.\u00a0 But I still walk into bars and, on inquiring, am told, &#8220;No micros, no imports, no bottles.&#8221;\u00a0 Do you know how awful it is to have to drink water in a bar?\u00a0 Cheap beer still has a chokehold on the American beer drinker, and it&#8217;s just wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I do worry about the Rapture in relation to beer &#8211; as we know, <a title=\"In Heaven, There Is No Beer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ntkC-o52weI\" target=\"_blank\">In Heaven There is no Beer<\/a>.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;d better get a decent ale out of the fridge now, just in case &#8211; and lay in a one week supply!\u00a0 But really. I&#8217;m Not Gonna Miss cheap beer.\u00a0 There&#8217;s just no excuse any more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So God, because I&#8217;m Not Gonna Miss\u00a0cheap beer &#8211; call the Rapture on May 21.\u00a0 And please, have a few cold ones ready for us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all the good things that will end too soon come the Rapture, let&#8217;s face it, you&#8217;re Not Gonna Miss cheap beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,16,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}