{"id":2439,"date":"2018-12-23T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T20:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2018-12-23T12:18:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T20:18:36","slug":"4th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=2439","title":{"rendered":"4th Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This month, tomorrow December 24th to be exact, marks the 4th anniversary of this Blog and I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has read my blog and\/or made suggestions, comments, or even critiques.\u00a0\u00a0 Your comments and support have been much appreciated and have helped keep me going on rare occasions when I have been a bit less motivated to write.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t have done nearly as much without you. As always, I solicit your restaurant and Martini reviews, they are ALWAYS welcome here. Especially Martini Reviews!<\/p>\n

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This year I have made progress on my adventures in homemade Gin, added Gin reviews, and more bar reviews.\u00a0 I had hopes of doing more but real life intervened.\u00a0 None-the-less I have 10 additional posts in some stage of draft, including more Gin and restaurant reviews.\u00a0 You can look forward to these appearing in the future along with new adventures in Gin making.<\/p>\n

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If any of you would like to see a specific Gin or Restaurant reviewed, please forward any such suggestions and I will do my very best to review them.<\/p>\n

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As I did last year, and the year before, I would also like to take a moment to pat myself on the back \u2026. the \u201cMartini Quotes<\/a>\u201d page is, I believe, currently the best collection Martini and general drinking quotes anywhere.\u00a0 Looking over stats for this blog, the quotes page definitely gets the most \u2018views\u2019 and seems to get the most Google referrals. If you find a better quotes page, please let me know and I\u2019ll go steal everything I don\u2019t have.\u00a0\u00a0 \"😉\"<\/p>\n

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I was watching my son act like James Bond in the garden earlier today.
\nHe wasn\u2019t going round pretending to shoot people,
\n<\/em>he was sipping martini\u2019s and chatting up all the ladies that walked by.
\nI\u2019m so proud of him.<\/em><\/p>\n

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More Martini Jokes can be found at:\u00a0 Martini Jokes<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you use twitter,\u00a0 you can find more Martini mayhem, along with a myriad of other \u201cfiner things in life\u201d, at<\/p>\n

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This month, tomorrow December 24th to be exact, marks the 4th anniversary of this Blog and I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has read my blog and\/or made suggestions, comments, or even critiques.\u00a0\u00a0 Your comments and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[139,28],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2278,"url":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=2278","url_meta":{"origin":2439,"position":0},"title":"3rd Anniversary!!","author":"wlmoon58","date":"January 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"December 24th completes the third full year of exciting Martini and Gin making and overall Martini amusement.\u00a0 It continues to be great fun writing and I hope you all enjoy my postings as much as I enjoy writing them. 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