{"id":168,"date":"2007-11-18T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T03:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2007-11-18T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T03:07:55","slug":"the-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/2007\/11\/18\/the-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the mall today and my wife wanted to go in to Bed Bath And Beyond.   I&#8217;m not a fan of the store, but they do have some nice bar ware. As my wife was looking around I went over to look at the bar ware and I thought I saw a Yard.  For thous of you not familiar with a yard it is a quart beer glass that is a yard high thats right three feet. It turns out this was half a yard but still something like this at Bed Bath And Beyond. I was surprised. <a href=\"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/1118071357.jpg\" title=\"1118071357.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/1118071357.jpg\" alt=\"1118071357.jpg\" \/><\/a>The only other place I have seen a yard was in British pubs. One in particular is The Tam O&#8217;Shanter <a href=\"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/0923071711.jpg\" title=\"0923071711.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/0923071711.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"0923071711.jpg\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>all though I am not sure that is a true yard they are fun kind of like an medieval beer bong.<a href=\"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/0923071714.jpg\" title=\"0923071714.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/0923071714.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"0923071714.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have heard, in the old days when they served thees they were also called quarts. That is were the expression &#8220;mind  your p &amp; q&#8217;s&#8221; comes from. When the the pub got rowdy  the bar tented would say &#8220;mind  your p &amp; q&#8217;s&#8221; which stood for mind  your pints &amp; quart&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the mall today and my wife wanted to go in to Bed Bath And Beyond. I&#8217;m not a fan of the store, but they do have some nice bar ware. As my wife was looking around I went over to look at the bar ware and I thought I saw a Yard. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}