{"id":12683,"date":"2006-04-13T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/the-ultimate-mint-julep\/"},"modified":"2006-04-13T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T21:03:00","slug":"the-ultimate-mint-julep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/the-ultimate-mint-julep\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Ultimate Mint Julep&#8221;?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kentucky Derby will now feature a <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.news.aol.com\/sports\/article.adp?id=20060411121909990020&amp;cid=936\" target=\"_blank\">$1,000 &ldquo;ultimate&rdquo; mint julep<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sweet cocktail will be made with one of the state&rsquo;s finest bourbons and served in a gold-plated cup with a silver straw to the first 50 people willing to put down the cash at the May 6 race.<\/p>\n<p>Mint from Morocco, ice from the Arctic Circle and sugar from the South Pacific will put this mint julep in a class of its own, the distillery selling the drink said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is almost as asinine as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/04\/12\/email-for-dumb-millionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Millionaires24.com<\/i> e-mail<\/a>, which I&rsquo;m still not sure is for real&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">thanks to Ulana for the link<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/alcohol\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">alcohol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/culinary\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">culinary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/dick\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">dick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/weird\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">weird<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114496211269353511?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kentucky Derby will now feature a $1,000 &ldquo;ultimate&rdquo; mint julep: The sweet cocktail will be made with one of the state&rsquo;s finest bourbons and served in a gold-plated cup with a silver straw to the first 50 people willing to put down the cash at the May 6 race. Mint from Morocco, ice from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/the-ultimate-mint-julep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The &#8220;Ultimate Mint Julep&#8221;?!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}