{"id":36458,"date":"2013-05-24T06:56:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36458"},"modified":"2013-05-24T06:56:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T11:56:04","slug":"lipstickpig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36458","title":{"rendered":"Lipstick\/Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A slew of bars in New Jersey, including 13 franchised TGI Fridays, were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2330116\/Scores-TGI-Fridays-New-Jersey-busted-selling-caramel-colored-rubbing-alcohol-shelf-scotch-statewide-crackdown-dubbed-Operation-Swill.html\">busted for selling caramel-colored rubbing alcohol as top-rail scotch<\/a>, among other things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were refilled with water &#8211; and apparently not even clean water at that.<\/p>\n<p>State officials provided those new details Thursday on raids they conducted a day earlier as part of a yearlong investigation dubbed Operation Swill.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-nine New Jersey bars and restaurants, including 13 TGI Fridays, were accused of substituting cheap booze &#8211; or worse &#8211; for top-shelf brands while charging premium prices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would explain a\u00a0<em>lot\u00a0<\/em>of the &#8220;top shelf&#8221; scotch I&#8217;ve had, come to think of it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slew of bars in New Jersey, including 13 franchised TGI Fridays, were busted for selling caramel-colored rubbing alcohol as top-rail scotch, among other things: At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were refilled with water &#8211; and apparently not even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-thats-the-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36460,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458\/revisions\/36460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}