{"id":1534,"date":"2010-04-23T18:57:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/blog\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2010-04-23T18:57:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:57:49","slug":"are-you-afraid-of-the-dark-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Are You Afraid of the Dark . . . Spirits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well don\u2019t be! As an avid dark-spirit lover myself, I have noticed that  an emerging trend is younger people and\u00a0the female\u00a0demographic are  starting to see the light on darker spirits&#8211;it\u2019s not just for the old  boys these days! From signature cocktail menus nationwide&#8211;to packaging,  marketing, and advertisement&#8211;brown spirits are being geared more and  more toward young drinkers and women like never before; dark spirits are  making a modern-day come back in a big way. Just ask A.J. Rathbun,  author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dark-Spirits-Concoctions-Starring-Bourbon\/dp\/1558324275\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Spirits: 200 Classy Concoctions starring Bourbon,  Brandy, Scotch, Whiskey, Rum and more<\/a><\/em>, who says, \u201ctoday\u2019s dark  spirits are more edgy than old fashioned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Continue reading on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aldenteblog.com\/2010\/04\/are-you-afraid-of-the-dark-spirits.html\">Amazon&#8217;s Al Dente Blog<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well don\u2019t be! As an avid dark-spirit lover myself, I have noticed that an emerging trend is younger people and\u00a0the female\u00a0demographic are starting to see the light on darker spirits&#8211;it\u2019s not just for the old boys these days! From signature cocktail menus nationwide&#8211;to packaging, marketing, and advertisement&#8211;brown spirits are being geared more and more toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11842,11760],"tags":[1024,885,1025,1026,1027,859,11855,1008,508,949,1028,1029,293,1030,871,764,1031,11857,10,922,1032,1033,824,1034,888,889],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-to-cook","category-dishing-with-kathy-casey-blog","tag-a-j-rathbun","tag-book","tag-bourbon","tag-brandy","tag-brown","tag-cocktail","tag-cocktails","tag-dark","tag-drinks","tag-garnish","tag-ginger-ale","tag-juice","tag-kathy-casey","tag-lime","tag-mixology","tag-orange","tag-pineapple","tag-recent","tag-recipes","tag-rum","tag-rye","tag-scotch","tag-simple-syrup","tag-spirits","tag-whiskey","tag-whisky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}