{"id":1309,"date":"2013-10-18T15:24:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2013-10-18T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:27:04","slug":"dag-nab-ding-a-lings-gih-gih-gih","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Dag-nab ding-a-lings gih-gih-gih!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tony_and_hoss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tony_and_hoss-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pals forever.\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tony_and_hoss-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tony_and_hoss.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we see Tony Gunning, a.k.a. Tony Baloney, enjoying an adult beverage with Hoss and his recently won Hamm&#8217;s Hat. And if you think Tony got that nickname by accident, well, you&#8217;d be wrong. Tony tells the most incredulous stories I&#8217;ve ever heard. He&#8217;s been in Viet Nam, Korea, World Wars I, II, and IV, etc. etc. He&#8217;s a helluva guy, actually. It&#8217;s always a treat to be in his presence, and he&#8217;s happy to engage you in conversation, which may or may not be to your liking.<\/p>\n<p>I recall one time in particular when The Rail first started serving Guinness in a can. I enjoy a Guinness now and then, but I typically prefer it from out of an actual tap. Anyway, I decided to have one, and I happened to be sitting next to Tony. He started spinning a yarn about how he used to hang out at some bar where they had an early morning breakfast. That breakfast consisted of a pint of Guinness and a hard-boiled egg. Now I&#8217;ve known of bars like this before, but the truly interesting thing was that according to Tony, they would hang the hard-boiled eggs by a string from the ceiling. You would raise your pint glass, dip the egg into it, and then eat the egg off of the string.<\/p>\n<p>I want to go to this bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we see Tony Gunning, a.k.a. Tony Baloney, enjoying an adult beverage with Hoss and his recently won Hamm&#8217;s Hat. And if you think Tony got that nickname by accident, well, you&#8217;d be wrong. Tony tells the most incredulous stories &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/?p=1309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}