{"id":6531,"date":"2014-07-13T05:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T12:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2014-07-12T21:15:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T04:15:48","slug":"importance-of-matching-your-drink-to-your-outfit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6531","title":{"rendered":"The importance of matching your drink to your outfit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were gallivanting around a week or two ago when someone said &#8220;it&#8217;s really important for your drink to match your outfit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who was it? Dawn? It sounds like Dawn. It could have been Chelle. Hmmm. I think Lillie ordered a Mimosa, and then Dawn ordered one and Chelle commented on it matching. <\/p>\n<p>I scribbled out a note about the importance of matching your drink to your outfit because I thought it was a cute idea. <\/p>\n<p>We were talking about it later, and this is what the 5 year old had to say on the topic:<br \/>\n&#8220;I love wine.<br \/>\nIs Nana 17 right now? I thought she was 26.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So that insight was valuable. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad that it isn&#8217;t really important to match your drink to your outfit. I would be screwed because I almost always wear black. How do you match your drink to black? I&#8217;d be doomed to a lifetime of nothing but stouts and porters. Maybe the occasional Black Russian. Omigod, how long has it been since I have had a Black Russian? <\/p>\n<p>Side note: do you suppose there are many actual black people in Russia?<br \/>\nGoogle says 40-70,000 black and mixed race people out of a population of around 143  million. So basically, no, there are not really any black people in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I would buy clothes that match a different sort of drink. It could be good for my wardrobe. <\/p>\n<p>What color goes with IPA?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were gallivanting around a week or two ago when someone said &#8220;it&#8217;s really important for your drink to match your outfit.&#8221; Who was it? Dawn? It sounds like Dawn. It could have been Chelle. Hmmm. I think Lillie ordered a Mimosa, and then Dawn ordered one and Chelle commented on it matching. I scribbled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The importance of matching your drink to your outfit<\/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_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-1Hl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6111,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6111","url_meta":{"origin":6531,"position":0},"title":"Where&#8217;d all the wine go?","author":"Michelle","date":"June 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Somehow we managed to drink all of the beer and wine in town. 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