{"id":2760,"date":"2022-02-26T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2022-02-26T14:58:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:58:01","slug":"otbn-officially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"OTBN (Officially)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/OTBN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2761\" width=\"169\" height=\"151\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Both regular readers and some others know that we we celebrate OTBN every month and it\u2019s something we enjoy and look forward to.\u00a0<br>But officially, OTBN only occurs once a year \u2014 it is officially celebrated on the last Saturday in February. It\u2019s also one of those special events that is proclaimed as an evening event.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This special <s>day<\/s> night was created in 2000 by the T<em>he Wall Street Journal<\/em> \u201cTastings\u201d columnists Dorothy J. Gaither and John Brecher. It is not celebrated on a set, fixed <s>day<\/s> night every year \u2014 the creators specifically established this <s>day<\/s> night on the last Saturday in February, so the date changes every year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Open That Bottle Night<\/em> has a very special purpose. Dorothy Gaither and John Becher created this <s>day<\/s> night to encourage people to re-connect with each other over a good bottle of wine or champagne. Short of that, a bottle of Scotch or Bourbon will certainly suffice. But importantly, it is not a <s>day<\/s> night to drink alone or to binge drink. Rather, you should open a bottle with your spouse, lover, family members, or good friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We tried this and thought it was such a good idea, that we make the last Saturday night of <em>every<\/em> month OTBN \u2014 if you\u2019d like to find out more about our experiences with OTBN over the years, you can use the search function&nbsp; for OTBN on this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So tonight, we may be joined by lots of people around the world that only celebrate the last Saturday night in February\u2026..<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both regular readers and some others know that we we celebrate OTBN every month and it\u2019s something we enjoy and look forward to.\u00a0But officially, OTBN only occurs once a year \u2014 it is officially celebrated on the last Saturday in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2760\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}