{"id":10500,"date":"2016-07-29T12:55:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10500"},"modified":"2016-07-29T12:55:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:55:15","slug":"five-things-i-wish-id-known-about-alcohol-im-at-aleteia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/07\/five-things-i-wish-id-known-about-alcohol-im-at-aleteia.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Five Things I Wish I&#8217;d Known About Alcohol&#8221;: I&#8217;m at Aleteia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>with five things:<\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<blockquote><p>The first time I got drunk, I was embarrassing. I was 17 and sloppy, grabbing other people\u2019s beers to finish the dregs, kissing randoms. I rode the subway home in the morning feeling incredible\u2014feeling new. My ridiculous and pathetic behavior was transformed into a kind of success. Now <i>that<\/i> was a party.<\/p>\n<p>A decade and a half later I started to read about other people who\u2019d had the same feeling: like falling in love, but also like <i>being<\/i> loved, like being good, like flying. Other people also responded to their first real drunken shambolic evening with, <i>Where has this feeling been all my life?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that like me, most of those people are alcoholics. Caroline Knapp titled her recovery memoir <i>Drinking: A Love Story<\/i>, and the biggest thing her book taught me was that if you have a <i>relationship<\/i> with alcohol \u2026 you might have a problem with alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody told me that, at 17. Here are some other things I didn\u2019t hear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/2016\/07\/29\/5-things-i-wish-id-been-told-about-alcohol\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with five things: The first time I got drunk, I was embarrassing. I was 17 and sloppy, grabbing other people\u2019s beers to finish the dregs, kissing randoms. I rode the subway home in the morning feeling incredible\u2014feeling new. My ridiculous and pathetic behavior was transformed into a kind of success. Now that was a party. 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