{"id":5717,"date":"2011-09-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2014-09-10T23:21:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T06:21:36","slug":"farmer-homers-sweet-sweet-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/farmer-homers-sweet-sweet-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Homer&#8217;s Sweet Sweet Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February, I helped my friends Emily and Tom bottle the wine they had made at <a href=\"http:\/\/classicwinemakers.com\/\">Classic Winemakers<\/a> in Lacey. Emily said they like their wine &#8220;big&#8221; and &#8220;bitey&#8221; and that they were struggling with a name for their creation. Immediately, I thought of the Simpsons episode where Homer drives the monorail, which is infested with opossums: <em>&#8220;I call the big one Bitey!&#8221;<\/em> Emily didn&#8217;t go for it. 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