{"id":1655,"date":"2014-02-05T18:50:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T00:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2014-02-05T18:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T00:50:31","slug":"the-little-told-story-of-how-the-u-s-government-poisoned-alcohol-during-prohibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Officially, the special denaturing program ended only once the 18th Amendment was repealed in December 1933. But the chemist&#8217;s war itself faded away before then. Slowly, government officials quit talking about it. And when Prohibition ended and good grain whiskey reappeared, it was almost as if the craziness of Prohibition\u2014and the poisonous measures taken to enforce it\u2014had never quite happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/medical_examiner\/2010\/02\/the_chemists_war.2.html\">The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officially, the special denaturing program ended only once the 18th Amendment was repealed in December 1933. But the chemist&#8217;s war itself faded away before then. Slowly, government officials quit talking about it. And when Prohibition ended and good grain whiskey &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1655\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[110,163],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-history","tag-prohibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}