{"id":1843,"date":"2009-03-07T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/03\/port-sippers\/"},"modified":"2009-03-07T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T15:51:50","slug":"port-sippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"Port Sippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=alwthecri-21&amp;o=2&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B000H1JLWK&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"float:right; margin-left:15px;width:120px;height:240px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nMy lovely wife got me a set of four port sippers for my birthday recently. One of my brothers got me a bottle of a good vintage port, and I still have a vintage bottle from a friend&#39;s wedding where I was best man. All I need now is a decanter and I&#39;m go go go for a port party!<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div>I&#39;ve been wanting some of these sippers for years, since using some at a friend&#39;s house, but never actually finding them anywhere (internet or real world). It seems they&#39;re now freshly available and easy to find. They are delicate little handmade glass items, the idea being that you drink through the built-in straw, hence taking the liquid from the bottom rather than the top. Which is apparently a good thing, helping to &quot;avoid oxidisation and improve taste&quot;. Apart from that they&#39;re just neat little things that are out of the ordinary.<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My lovely wife got me a set of four port sippers for my birthday recently. One of my brothers got me a bottle of a good vintage port, and I still have a vintage bottle from a friend&#39;s wedding where I was best man. All I need now is a decanter and I&#39;m go go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}