{"id":108,"date":"2004-04-16T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T23:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=108"},"modified":"2004-04-16T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T23:55:44","slug":"govt-like-a-brewery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Govt. Like a Brewery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Post Columnist Al Lewis thinks government should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/Stories\/0,1413,36~130~2074603,00.html\">run like a brewery<\/a>. A quick read of his column doesn&#8217;t actually include any reasons that have any merit, so I suppose we can assume that Al is a Coors man.<\/p>\n<p>The breweries that are successful, like Coors, end up that way from years of making compromises, most of which result in a crappy product.  The columnist attributes Coors&#8217; shaking its white-trash image to Peter, who has brought some class back to the brewery by changing its sales tactics. Now they objectify women in their advertisements. Wait a second&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>He also points out that Coors should provide stable leadership because its hard to be a megalomaniac while sipping a brewski.  I guess sipping a brewski only leads to cool problems, like pollution, union busting, racism, rape, domestic violence and crappy beer.<\/p>\n<p>We all are aware that many of the founding fathers were ale drinkers. However, they didn&#8217;t brew themselves. Usually it was the women in their lives that brewed, on only smaller batches, and only ale, not sub-lager. I&#8217;m not buying the connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Post Columnist Al Lewis thinks government should be run like a brewery. A quick read of his column doesn&#8217;t actually include any reasons that have any merit, so I suppose we can assume that Al is a Coors man. The breweries that are successful, like Coors, end up that way from years of making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Govt. Like a Brewery?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}