{"id":759,"date":"2023-04-29T23:23:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T22:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=759"},"modified":"2023-04-29T23:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T22:25:35","slug":"do-you-drink-like-a-dictator-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/do-you-drink-like-a-dictator-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drink Like A Dictator Night!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ten whiskeys. Five dictators. Three US Presidents. Two African Despots. Multiple Koreans called Kim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s back, after almost a decade on the 2nd of May in Budapest! It&#8217;s the long-awaited return of Drink Like A Dictator Night!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For one night only, you too can learn how to drink like a dictator. Discover the Scotches that fuelled Saddam and the Bourbons that built democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/dlad2.jpg?resize=525%2C380&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/dlad2.jpg?resize=1024%2C742&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/dlad2.jpg?resize=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/dlad2.jpg?resize=768%2C557&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/dlad2.jpg?w=1210&amp;ssl=1 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During this light-hearted, heavy-drinking evening of political satire and commentary, you&#8217;ll discover which whiskey is the choice of most totalitarian leaders, which dictator created his own whiskey to promote the idea that he was king of a far-off nation, who accompanied their dram with some hippo sushi, and what became of the single malt forgotten by Boris Yeltsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advance booking required. See FB event page here: <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/eM-NcmRC\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/eM-NcmRC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=budapest&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7058196891112480769\">#budapest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=whisky&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7058196891112480769\">#whisky<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=whiskey&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7058196891112480769\">#whiskey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=bourbon&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7058196891112480769\">#bourbon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=dictatorship&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7058196891112480769\">#dictatorship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten whiskeys. Five dictators. Three US Presidents. Two African Despots. Multiple Koreans called Kim. It&#8217;s back, after almost a decade on the 2nd of May in Budapest! It&#8217;s the long-awaited return of Drink Like A Dictator Night! For one night only, you too can learn how to drink like a dictator. Discover the Scotches that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/do-you-drink-like-a-dictator-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drink Like A Dictator Night!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[132,491],"tags":[506,505,507,432],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-history","category-whiskey","tag-dictator","tag-dictatorship","tag-drink","tag-whiskey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/dlad2.jpg?fit=1210%2C877&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-cf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}