{"id":1661,"date":"2007-07-26T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2013-05-04T01:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T01:50:15","slug":"some-sobering-facts-about-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/some-sobering-facts-about-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Sobering Facts About Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have gotten the attention of the professional and amateur chemists of my blog readership with my <a href=\"http:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/chemistry-quiz-for-nerdy-bloggers.html\">impromptu quiz<\/a>, I now feel I can address a serious problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/images\/blog\/tca.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/images\/blog\/tca.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at that.  Isn&#8217;t it beautiful?<\/p>\n<p>Some people call it 2,4,6-trichloroanisole.<br \/>The kids call it TCA.<br \/>The old folks call it C<sub>7<\/sub>H<sub>5<\/sub>OCl<sub>3<\/sub><br \/>I like to call it Sheila. <\/p>\n<p>How could such an angelic-looking, sweet, innocent compound have such an insidious effect on our lives, on our very world?<\/p>\n<p>The answer may disgust you.<br \/>The answer may frighten you.<br \/>The answer may potentially neither disgust nor frighten you.<\/p>\n<p>I, of course, speak of the embarrassing stench of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cork_taint\">cork taint<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have gotten the attention of the professional and amateur chemists of my blog readership with my impromptu quiz, I now feel I can address a serious problem. Look at that. Isn&#8217;t it beautiful? 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