{"id":37,"date":"2009-07-31T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rid-usa.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/31\/the-beer-summit-gift-from-obama\/"},"modified":"2021-04-27T20:01:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T00:01:33","slug":"the-beer-summit-gift-from-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/2009\/07\/31\/the-beer-summit-gift-from-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Beer Summit&#8221; Gift from Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s White House &#8220;Beer Summit&#8221; headline was produced by the media, which earns a lot of money from beer advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Tying an invitation to &#8220;have a beer&#8221; with Professor Gates and Officer Crowley offered by Obama(like offering a &#8220;come to tea&#8221; invitation to a woman) gave the media an opening to the beer industry for a whole new ad campaign or perhaps a new White House logo on future beer cans, a huge favor which I don&#8217;t think Obama intented. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the health plan reform bill remains stalled by the Congress while we see multi-replays of the beer table service next to the children&#8217;s playground equipement in the White House Background. <\/p>\n<p>Getting beer use burned into the minds of small children and their parents normalizes and encourages interest in beer drinking, even at the White House. <\/p>\n<p>As an early beer ad claimed, &#8216;It&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t get any better than this.&#8221; That&#8217;s so true from the beer industry veiwpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s White House &#8220;Beer Summit&#8221; headline was produced by the media, which earns a lot of money from beer advertising. Tying an invitation to &#8220;have a beer&#8221; with Professor Gates and Officer Crowley offered by Obama(like offering a &#8220;come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/2009\/07\/31\/the-beer-summit-gift-from-obama\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16,21,27,36],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rid-news","tag-beer-summit","tag-crowley","tag-gates","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rid-usa.org\/rid-usa-inc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}