{"id":118,"date":"2009-11-16T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=118"},"modified":"2012-03-22T16:11:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T22:11:06","slug":"drilling-for-scotch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Drilling for Scotch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story caught my eye and is news-worthy for our KOTQ page.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently a British explorer in the early 1900s, Sir Ernest Shackleton, had a crate of McKinlay &#038; Co whisky on hand during his 1909 expedition in the Antarctica.    The expedition was abandonded at some point, and the explorer left behind his stock.<\/p>\n<p>Whyte &#038; MacKay, who currently owns McKinlay &#038; Co, has commissioned New Zealand&#8217;s Antarctic Heritage Trust to use special drills to retrieve these 100+ year-old bottles.   The intent is not so much to drink the spirit, but rather to determine if reproduction of the storied whisky is worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/24\/magazine\/drinking-ernest-shackletons-whisky.html?pagewanted=all\">link<\/a> to the original story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story caught my eye and is news-worthy for our KOTQ page. Apparently a British explorer in the early 1900s, Sir Ernest Shackleton, had a crate of McKinlay &#038; Co whisky on hand during his 1909 expedition in the Antarctica. The expedition was abandonded at some point, and the explorer left behind his stock. Whyte [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}