{"id":194784,"date":"2008-08-19T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/19\/draft-beer-not-people\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T10:18:00","slug":"draft-beer-not-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/19\/draft-beer-not-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft Beer Not People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I began my <strike>drinking<\/strike> college career before the universal 21-year-old drinking age, it was 20 in Massachusetts, and it did not interfere with my drinking at all, so I approve of the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2008\/08\/whittier-colleg.html\">efforts by over 100 college presidents to lower the drinking age to 18<\/a> (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amethystinitiative.org\/\">Amethyst Initiative<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>They believe that the current regime leads to unsafe habits and binge drinking, and I agree.<\/p>\n<p>My observation, and I was at college through the transition, is that the change in the law did not make for safer drinking, or a reduction in drinking and driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began my drinking college career before the universal 21-year-old drinking age, it was 20 in Massachusetts, and it did not interfere with my drinking at all, so I approve of the efforts by over 100 college presidents to lower the drinking age to 18 (the Amethyst Initiative). They believe that the current regime leads &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,968,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-education","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}