{"id":10105,"date":"2006-01-02T12:12:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T17:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/01\/02\/10105.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:47","slug":"lift-a-glass-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/01\/02\/lift-a-glass-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Lift a glass to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So. Can somebody explain to me why bars and liquor stores are closed today? I mean, I understand, more or less, why Connecticut closes bars and liquor stores on New Year&#8217;s Day, and I understand why Connecticut closes bars and liquor stores on Sunday, but surely if New Year&#8217;s Day falls on a Sunday, you can just close the stores on the first, and be done with it? I mean, you have to close banks and government offices today, because you have agreed to give eight holidays a year (or whatever) and you can&#8217;t steal a paid day off from your workers just because the calendar falls a certain way. But why one earth shouldn&#8217;t people be drinking today?\n<p>One suggestion was that there is some sort of tax-related mandatory inventory that must be done on January 1, and that if January 1 is a Sunday, then you need to do it on Monday. And although that doesn&#8217;t actually make sense, I can imagine the necessary laws accreting that way. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s what happened, though.\n<p>There&#8217;s no labor lobby insisting that the liquor stores close on New Year&#8217;s Day (observed), is there? The stores themselves don&#8217;t want to close, do they? Where&#8217;s the constituency for closing bars on Monday the second? Where&#8217;s the rationale?\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. Can somebody explain to me why bars and liquor stores are closed today? I mean, I understand, more or less, why Connecticut closes bars and liquor stores on New Year\u2019s Day, and I understand why Connecticut closes bars and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17647,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions\/17647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}