{"id":192,"date":"2005-08-24T07:46:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=192"},"modified":"2005-08-24T07:46:49","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T15:46:49","slug":"south-salt-lake-bans-home-brewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"South Salt Lake bans home brewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is dumb. The mayor of South Salt Lake City is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/utah\/ci_2964935\">ban home brewing in his city<\/a>. Why?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care what people do in their own homes as long as it doesn&#8217;t spill out into the public,&#8221; Mayor Wes Losser said. &#8220;But if there were problems related to home-brewing, such as people going blind or a small riot breaking out, we have to think in extremes to cover all the bases.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t home brew that causes blindness &#8211; it&#8217;s when you try to distill at home and can&#8217;t separate the methanol from the ethanol. The methanol is what make you go blind, or retarded, or dead.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those cases where someone has a misguided agenda based on some really crappy (and wrong) reasons. If the mayor is going to outlaw home brewing, don&#8217;t hide behind the &#8220;what you do in your own homes&#8221; pretense &#8211; just say it &#8211; you&#8217;re ignorant and want to further control the people in your city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is dumb. The mayor of South Salt Lake City is going to ban home brewing in his city. Why? &#8220;I don&#8217;t care what people do in their own homes as long as it doesn&#8217;t spill out into the public,&#8221; Mayor Wes Losser said. &#8220;But if there were problems related to home-brewing, such as people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">South Salt Lake bans home brewing<\/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-192","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\/192","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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}