{"id":1389,"date":"2004-11-21T20:18:10","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2004-11-21T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2004-11-22T00:18:10","slug":"half-a-bottle-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"half a bottle will do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been showing my aged mother around Rome: hence no posts, though I may put up some photographs. The <em>Financial Times<\/em> recommended a restaurant in via pellegrino, <em>ai bric,<\/em> which was remarkable for two reasons. The windows showed a display of forty cheese and one exhausted fly (the four cheeses tried were fantastic); the wine list contained a bottle of Petrus &#8217;90 for 2,700 euros. I thought I should maybe offer them my car, which has the market value of half that bottle. But they didn&#8217;t have half bottles, so I settled for something a hundredth of the price.<\/p>\n\n<p>I wonder: at what price does the law of diominishing returns kick in with wine? I have never been able to afford the necessary research, but I suspect it&#8217;s about <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been showing my aged mother around Rome: hence no posts, though I may put up some photographs. The Financial Times recommended a restaurant in via pellegrino, ai bric, which was remarkable for two reasons. The windows showed a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}