{"id":1702,"date":"2009-11-25T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailycoyote.net\/index.php\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2009-11-25T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T15:21:47","slug":"our-champagne-cork-quirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"Champagne Quirks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

photo taken August 2009<\/p>\n

one year ago: Oh, The Expression!<\/a>
\ntwo years ago: Off And Running<\/a><\/p>\n

Back when I posted THIS<\/strong><\/a> picture for a caption contest ~ Charlie with a champagne cork ~ a reader named Rhedrose left the comment: “I am happily intrigued with why, in the wilds of Wyoming, Charlie apparently has such a familiarity with champagne corks. What ARE y\u2019all doing up there?!?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Well.\u00a0 When I graduated from high school, I didn’t go to college; I moved to France.\u00a0 I lived in an attic (really) outside Paris and it was one of the most horrendous experiences of my life.\u00a0 The trauma, however, though significant, was not enduring, and the few glorious things I did experience while in France have stayed with me.\u00a0 I had a m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois.\u00a0 I fell in love with cheese.\u00a0 Such clich\u00e9s, I know.<\/p>\n

I also was introduced to champagne, in a manner that exuded a casual, elegant, nonchalance.\u00a0 Which might seem a contradiction but it’s not.\u00a0 I worked as an au pair, and the family always had a case of champagne at hand, and always<\/em> had a bottle open in the fridge.\u00a0 Always.\u00a0 To my 18-year-old mind, the perpetual bottle of champagne seemed so decadent, so romantic, so “je ne sais quoi,”<\/em> and I vowed, once I got the heck out of there, to adopt the tradition as soon as I was legally able.\u00a0 However, when I did reach the age where I could stock my fridge with champagne, I could not afford to.\u00a0 I was a starving student, then a starving artist.<\/p>\n

Now I live in Wyoming in a very rustic manner, drive a beater truck, and am usually clad in dirty jeans.\u00a0 However, while I do not have cases of it, nor a bottle in my fridge at all times, I will, upon occasion, buy champagne for no reason.\u00a0 And Charlie loves the corks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

photo taken August 2009 one year ago: Oh, The Expression! two years ago: Off And Running Back when I posted THIS picture for a caption contest ~ Charlie with a champagne cork ~ a reader named Rhedrose left the comment: “I am happily intrigued with why, in the wilds of Wyoming, Charlie apparently has such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}