{"id":353587,"date":"2010-02-20T16:28:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T21:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22866"},"modified":"2010-02-20T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T21:28:22","slug":"the-chemist%e2%80%99s-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/353587","title":{"rendered":"The Chemist\u2019s War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2245188\">Slate<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 10px solid white;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.slate.com\/media\/1\/123125\/123104\/2240687\/2243389\/100218_RX_prohibitionTN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The little-told story of how the U.S.  government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.<\/p>\n<p>It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights,  when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at  New York City&#8217;s Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear:  Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a  baseball bat.Before hospital staff realized how sick he was\u2014the  alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom\u2014the man died. So did  another holiday partygoer. And another. As dusk fell on Christmas, the  hospital staff tallied up more than 60 people made desperately ill by  alcohol and eight dead from it. Within the next two days, yet another 23  people died in the city from celebrating the season.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Slate: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences. It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City&#8217;s Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}