{"id":104261,"date":"2019-08-02T02:39:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T00:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/02\/everything-is-better-without-alcohol-and-i-really-do-mean-everything-readers-on-drinking\/"},"modified":"2019-08-02T02:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T00:39:49","slug":"everything-is-better-without-alcohol-and-i-really-do-mean-everything-readers-on-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=104261","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Everything is better without alcohol, and I really do mean everything&#039;: readers on drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Gay Alcorn wrote about giving up alcohol for a month readers responded with their own tales of struggle, indulgence and enjoymentThis week Gay Alcorn wrote about giving up alcohol for a month and how she was not prepared for the impact it had. She wrote:I drank to pretend that my life was more interesting than it was, to escape from everyday problems, and because I enjoyed it. Or maybe that\u2019s self-justifying crap. Maybe it\u2019s just that alcohol is an addictive substance like all of those illicit drugs we demonise and, over the years, I had become addicted. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/02\/everything-is-better-without-alcohol-and-i-really-do-mean-everything-reader-relationships-with-drinking\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Everything is better without alcohol, and I really do mean everything&#039;: readers on drinking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Gay Alcorn wrote about giving up alcohol for a month readers responded with their own tales of struggle, indulgence and enjoymentThis week Gay Alcorn wrote about giving up alcohol for a month and how she was not prepared for the impact it had. She wrote:I drank to pretend that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}