{"id":2057,"date":"2015-08-16T20:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2015-08-16T20:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T19:30:21","slug":"national-rum-day-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/rum\/national-rum-day-2015","title":{"rendered":"National Rum Day 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/rum-tasting1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2059\" src=\"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/rum-tasting1.jpg\" alt=\"Rum Tasting\" width=\"550\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who may not have realised, today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rumday.com\/\">National Rum Day<\/a> and for those of us in the UK there&#8217;s still time to join in. Now I&#8217;m all for celebrating my spirit of choice, but what exactly does it mean for it to be National Rum Day? Well simply put I&#8217;m not actually sure and I don&#8217;t appear to be the only rum blogger who doesn&#8217;t. Even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rumday.com\/\">National Rum Day Website<\/a> is somewhat lacking of any details of what it actually means or whether there&#8217;s any history as to <a href=\"http:\/\/nationaldaycalendar.com\/2015\/08\/15\/august-16-2015-national-rum-day-national-roller-coaster-day-national-tell-a-joke-day-national-airborne-day\/\">why<\/a> the 16th August was selected for this wonderful day of celebration.<\/p>\n<p>However a quick search on the Internet throws up a number of articles, including these from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nickpassmore\/2015\/08\/14\/six-super-cocktails-to-celebrate-national-rum-day\/\">Forbes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/destinations\/10greatplaces\/2015\/08\/14\/rum-bars\/31622285\/\">USA Today<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/food-and-drink\/recipes\/national-rum-day-2015-three-cocktail-recipes-to-help-you-enjoy-the-caribbeans-sweet-nectar-10457759.html\">Independent <\/a>and even a selection of rum based cocktails and their associated rums on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thewhiskyexchange.com\/2015\/08\/national-rum-day-a-caribbean-cruise\/\">Whisky Exchange website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But for those of us who responsibly enjoy Rum, I&#8217;m sure we don&#8217;t see anything wrong with a special day in the diary as an additional excuse to raise a glass. So whether your preference is neat, over ice, a <a href=\"http:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/drinks\/rum\/rumcocktails.php\">Rum Cocktail<\/a> or even just a Rum &amp; Coke, raise a glass in support of our wonderfully obscure day of celebration: National Rum Day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who may not have realised, today is National Rum Day and for those of us in the UK there&#8217;s still time to join in. Now I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[557,560],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rum","tag-national-rum-day","tag-rum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rum.charlosa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}