{"id":19797,"date":"2013-08-19T11:33:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19797"},"modified":"2013-08-19T16:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T20:25:26","slug":"why-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/why-bother\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19799\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nearbeer.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19799\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19799\" alt=\"Why bother?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nearbeer-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nearbeer-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nearbeer.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why bother?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes, when people learn I gave up drinking a lifetime ago, they ask if I ever drink non-alcoholic or &#8220;near&#8221; beer. I do not and never have. Why bother?<\/p>\n<p>I drink a lot of caffeinated\u00a0coffee, on the other hand. Personally, I feel the same way about decaf coffee, although we keep it around the house for friends who can&#8217;t handle the real stuff following dinner. Privately I grumble that some of my friends are wimps for not drinking coffee with me at night, but as a father, there have been times when I&#8217;ve made our boys and their friends decaf coffee so they can feel part of the fun after having participated nicely in a long, adult dinner. Maybe beer-drinking dads keep near beer in the fridge to let their underage kids feel grown up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about compiling my personal <em>Why Bother<\/em> list, and it will likely include a subcategory for musical instances of <em>Why Bother<\/em>. Maybe you can help me with that part of the list, and feel free to add some general life <em>Why Bothers<\/em> while you&#8217;re at it.<\/p>\n<p>The first musical <em>Why Bother<\/em> that comes to mind for me is bands with 2 drummers. Other than the fact that it initially seems like a cool idea and looks good, why bother?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, when people learn I gave up drinking a lifetime ago, they ask if I ever drink non-alcoholic or &#8220;near&#8221; beer. I do not and never have. Why bother? I drink a lot of caffeinated\u00a0coffee, on the other hand. Personally, I feel the same way about decaf coffee, although we keep it around the house <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/why-bother\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}