{"id":34377,"date":"2012-10-26T00:46:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T04:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=34377"},"modified":"2020-07-03T00:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T04:46:56","slug":"mission-50-cervesas-a-critical-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=34377","title":{"rendered":"Mission 50 Cervesas a critical failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-34378 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_2471.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_2471.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_2471-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">This is a picture I took in my first night in Mexico.\u00a0 Because I was laying down on a bench.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Because I was drunk<\/em>.\u00a0 And this palm tree was all I could see from my perspective at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Prior to my trip to Mexico, I had declared to myself that I wanted to kill 50 cervesas down in Mexico.\u00a0 I wanted to drink Dos Equises, Coronas, Sols, Modelos, and whatever other Mexican beers were considered local, as opposed to the Bud\/Miller\/Coors swill readily available in the States.\u00a0 I had this ambition that I would mark all my beers as I conquered them one by one, and would have a nice album of photographs documenting my douchey conquest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Well, that didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 I probably had like 6-7 beers throughout the entire trip, and aside from the cans of Dos Equis, I actually have no clue to what kind it was based on the fact that they came out of a tap at one of the random bars, with no discernible handles on it.\u00a0 Not to mention just about every drink served was presented in reusable plastic or glass cups, and I was pretty sure there would be a hearty objection if I were tagging the resorts\u2019 kitchenware with numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But that\u2019s not to say I didn\u2019t do much drinking; quite the contrary, I drank myself to oblivion on at least two occasions that I can actually remember.\u00a0 I can\u2019t necessarily say I\u2019m proud of such indulgence, but seeing as how I have occasional douchebag tendencies like glorifying my alcohol consumption, here we stand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Part of staying at an all-inclusive resort meant that even the booze was included in the stay.\u00a0 With bars located pretty much everywhere in sight, but most importantly the pool and the beach, it was never a reach to get something to drink.\u00a0 Part of staying in Mexico meant that the climate is scientifically measurable as \u201cballs-sticking-to-you-hot-and-humid.\u201d\u00a0 With that in mind, I\u2019ve done pounding beers in the hot sun in my life as a baseball fan.\u00a0 I sought out something different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">So instead of getting hammered on beers, I ended up getting hammered on a litany of tropical frozen and fruity drinks, all of which contained varying amounts of rum, tequila, vodka, or all of the above.\u00a0 And Bloody Marys, lots and lots of Bloody Marys.\u00a0 Typically, I stay away from hard shit because liquor can fuck me up, but being an all-inclusive resort, the pours are a little on the lighter side; however, even light pours add up to some drunken stupor after about 15 drinks in the pool.\u00a0 I have a bruise on my hip from an embarrassing spill to attest to that, admittedly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I didn\u2019t do 50 cervesas in a week like I had originally wanted, but in the end, it\u2019s safe to say that I did however do well over 50 alcoholic beverages entirely.\u00a0 Not necessarily something to really be bragging about, but what the hell, it was all for the sake of pursuing a good time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a picture I took in my first night in Mexico.\u00a0 Because I was laying down on a bench.\u00a0\u00a0Because I was drunk.\u00a0 And this palm tree was all I could see from my perspective at the time. Prior to my trip to Mexico, I had declared to myself that I wanted to kill 50 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=34377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mission 50 Cervesas a critical failure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,15,52,65,166],"class_list":["post-34377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-booze","tag-og","tag-owned","tag-travel","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34379,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34377\/revisions\/34379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}