{"id":779,"date":"2008-05-02T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T15:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badarmpit.wordpress.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-07-23T17:22:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:22:56","slug":"lack-of-alcohol-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2008\/05\/02\/lack-of-alcohol-tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of alcohol tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the years since University, my exposure to alcohol has steadily dropped&#8230; and dropped&#8230; and dropped. A part of me wishes that I&#8217;d logged my units, because it would be interesting to see exactly how much I am drinking compared to back then. Is it half as much? A fifth? A tenth?<\/p>\n<p>Either way, it shows. On Wednesday night I drank about four pints of Abbot Ale (5%). My wife tells me that I was noticeably drunk from the moment that I staggered through the front door. I had quite a hangover in the morning, and couldn&#8217;t stand up for more than a few minute without feeling queasy. Fortunately, once I had done the whole coffee, toast, shower, brush teeth routine, things started picking up quickly.<\/p>\n<p>If only the younger me could see me now. &#8220;What happened to you, old man?&#8221; he&#8217;d say. &#8220;Four pints? You shouldn&#8217;t be having a hangover after four pints!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The way I see it, I have the following options:<\/p>\n<p>1. Drink more beer. Get my tolerance back up.<br \/>\n2. Drink less beer. Limit myself to two or three pints a night, either by alternating with non-alcoholic drinks, or drinking slower.<br \/>\n3. Keep getting hangovers on those rare occasions (once a month, ish) when I go out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the years since University, my exposure to alcohol has steadily dropped&#8230; and dropped&#8230; and dropped. A part of me wishes that I&#8217;d logged my units, because it would be interesting to see exactly how much I am drinking compared to back then. Is it half as much? A fifth? A tenth? Either way, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[433],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander","tag-hangover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}