{"id":1852,"date":"2020-02-16T20:14:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T02:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2020-02-16T20:14:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T02:14:28","slug":"brother-rambler-being-an-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Brother Rambler being an Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While visiting the Scotch Library at the Westin Kierland in Scottsdale, AZ Brother Rambler executed his duty as a single malt ambassador, as a member of the KOTQ &#8211; Chicago, in exemplary fashion. I recount his tale here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went back to the Scotch Library with a group of fairly inexperienced people. The guy was going through his spiel on single malts: nosing, tasting, etc. He recognized that I knew what I was doing and said at one point to the group, &#8220;there&#8217;s only one rule of single malt, and I&#8217;ll let this gentleman tell you what it is.&#8221; So, I naturally said the rule that the KOTQ &#8211; Chicago was founded upon, &#8220;all single malts are good&#8230;it&#8217;s up to you find the good in it&#8221;. He was going in a different direction (was going to say there aren&#8217;t any rules and you should drink it how you enjoy it), but then said, &#8220;I like that rule a lot, going to use that in the future.&#8221; Rambler: being an Ambassador everywhere!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While visiting the Scotch Library at the Westin Kierland in Scottsdale, AZ Brother Rambler executed his duty as a single malt ambassador, as a member of the KOTQ &#8211; Chicago, in exemplary fashion. I recount his tale here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/1852"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepersofthequaich.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}