{"id":242704,"date":"2026-07-14T00:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242704\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:21:09","slug":"spirits-that-moved-america-lessons-through-liquor-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242704\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirits That Moved America: Lessons Through Liquor &#8211; Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spirits have played a significant role in American history, from the whiskey that the Founding Fathers produced and the lasting impact of Prohibition all the way through America&#8217;s leading role in the development of cocktails. In this session, renowned food and drink writer Brian Freedman will lead a tasting a wide variety of spirits that embody these mile markers along our nation&#8217;s spirited journey. Whiskey, vodka, sotol\u2014it&#8217;ll all on the table and in our glasses as we look at the 250-year sweep of the country through the lens of these fascinating liquids. <\/p>\n<p>This event is part of the JES&#8217;s USA 250 Event Series. <\/p>\n<p>Location:\u202fJefferson Educational Society &#8211; 3207 State St. Erie, PA 16508 <br \/>Date\/Time: Thursday, July 16th, 4:00-5:30PM <br \/>Admission:\u202f $15\/ person; $25\/with a guest<\/p>\n<p>*If you do NOT receive an email from info@jeserie.org within 24-48 hours regarding your registration, please check your spam or junk folder. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spirits have played a significant role in American history, from the whiskey that the Founding Fathers produced and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-242704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}