{"id":32569,"date":"2022-12-27T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000029157"},"modified":"2022-12-23T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T22:11:20","slug":"holiday-happy-hour-an-historic-drink-and-lesson-with-tim-grobatys-ward-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/holiday-happy-hour-an-historic-drink-and-lesson-with-tim-grobatys-ward-8","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Happy Hour: An historic drink, and lesson, with Tim Grobaty&#8217;s Ward 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of its roots in political elections, I chose the Ward 8 cocktail in honor of the recently completed midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>The drink, which, in addition to rye, includes a tangy mix of lemon, orange and pomegranate, is refreshing and goes down easier than a Trump-picked candidate.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s loosely based on a whiskey sour, but notably without egg yolk (Tim hates eggs in his cocktails). It originated in Boston in 1898, when Democratic politician and kingmaker Martin M. Lomasney made a run for the state legislature.<\/p>\n<p>When he won the election, much of the credit went to the voters of Boston\u2019s 8th Ward for giving him the winning margin of victory.<\/p>\n<p>The cocktail was invented in Boston\u2019s Locke-Ober restaurant, which is still in business today if you want to swing by.<\/p>\n<p>The Ward 8 recipe is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liquor.com\/recipes\/ward-eight\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tim makes a Ward 8 cocktail\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cS2f818xOQs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columnist Tim Grobaty dives into the history and election-winning recipe of the historic Ward 8 cocktail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":72217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31970],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2792],"class_list":["post-32569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-cocktail-party","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32569"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=32569"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=32569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}