{"id":7068902,"date":"2026-09-28T05:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/drinking-without-dogma-writing-without-wonder%e2%80%bd\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T05:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:38:27","slug":"drinking-without-dogma-writing-without-wonder%e2%80%bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902","title":{"rendered":"Drinking without Dogma \u2013 Writing without Wonder\u203d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-5211132282559866511\">\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhE4reTmPm-cK8UFoZAJ8QdH13WcEeJORiM1ug5n1-I7Oz-KgGN4jyIwKSL_uRs4unFkdw8xGWgJXNh-766iV2jizViUAthWbxL2NI1PTqgjjLwm2tx9a-zFIQRLuqCy1mPwuhxy-SqnK3Okzh2BNokhl3aelmLfHBacAs8Z3L12qLO8Bm85AW0\/s3330\/Ron%20Washam%20and%20Hugh%20Johnson1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2856\" data-original-width=\"3330\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhE4reTmPm-cK8UFoZAJ8QdH13WcEeJORiM1ug5n1-I7Oz-KgGN4jyIwKSL_uRs4unFkdw8xGWgJXNh-766iV2jizViUAthWbxL2NI1PTqgjjLwm2tx9a-zFIQRLuqCy1mPwuhxy-SqnK3Okzh2BNokhl3aelmLfHBacAs8Z3L12qLO8Bm85AW0\/s320\/Ron%20Washam%20and%20Hugh%20Johnson1.jpg\" width=\"320\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>\ud834\udd58\ud834\udd65\ud834\udd70\u00a0 Don&#8217;t bother they&#8217;re here \ud834\udd58\ud834\udd65\ud834\udd70\u00a0<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;\">W<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">hen I look at the \u201cinside<br \/>\nbaseball\u201d world of wine writing lately, I want to puke. It is as if this<br \/>\nlittle manufactured bubble, which displays little if anything of a natural<br \/>\nreality, exists for the simple reason that folks need something to hang onto in<br \/>\nregard to the way they identify themselves in the world. Apart from the<br \/>\nartifice, the performativity, the virtuousness and the constant scuffling for<br \/>\nthe top rung, where are the stories? What happened to the story tellers?<span><a name=\"more\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">I think about photography often when arguments over \u201cart\u201d and<br \/>\ntechnology become heated. In the 1830s, when photography was born, painters<br \/>\nwere outraged. Here was this imitator, this mechanical intruder, muscling in on<br \/>\nwhat they&#8217;d decided art was. Give it a century, though, and we got an Ansel<br \/>\nAdams, a Diane Arbus \u2013 as different from each other as Monet was from Kandinsky<br \/>\n\u2013 and nobody was arguing anymore about whether photography was or wasn\u2019t art.<br \/>\nThen digital cameras arrived and the film shooters lost their minds over this<br \/>\nnew usurper. Now digital is as good, technically, maybe better, at making art<br \/>\nthan film ever was. And here comes AI, and once again everybody&#8217;s hair is on<br \/>\nfire. I often heard this line from a wine colleague of mine, Guy Stout. He<br \/>\nloved to say, \u201cIt ain\u2019t the wand, it\u2019s the magician.\u201d I took those words to<br \/>\nheart. In the same way \u2013 AI is a wand \u2013 it sure as hell ain\u2019t my magician. It\u2019s<br \/>\na tool, a prop, a pillow to cry on, even \u2013 but it is not the story teller we<br \/>\nneed \u2013 we still need the humans, the magicians, to saddle up to the campfire<br \/>\nand spin the tale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi1Mta2TUysyev6aJjuyMKiXqn9QwOsYUqZ8rjfWwY2KqXfafdZjqpiJTx8AGAU4Q5_xWeVR-dANhyphenhyphenGZjJ5RQT4UupBeAGP5FfbnPkJeXmUwFgF7hLivFX5-WAAAykwwGKf0ogy8ia06YeBec_mXPVEkijrhdVVvgHacG2oLqAK9MQqYlnGuYgx\/s666\/guy%20at%20latour.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"666\" data-original-width=\"666\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi1Mta2TUysyev6aJjuyMKiXqn9QwOsYUqZ8rjfWwY2KqXfafdZjqpiJTx8AGAU4Q5_xWeVR-dANhyphenhyphenGZjJ5RQT4UupBeAGP5FfbnPkJeXmUwFgF7hLivFX5-WAAAykwwGKf0ogy8ia06YeBec_mXPVEkijrhdVVvgHacG2oLqAK9MQqYlnGuYgx\/s320\/guy%20at%20latour.JPG\" width=\"320\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Spellcheck: There&#8217;s no &#8220;AI&#8221; in Guy<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">So there&#8217;s that. It&#8217;s nothing new. It&#8217;s the same argument,<br \/>\ndressed up for the latest unsuspecting and upcoming generation. The tool<br \/>\nchanges but the panic rears its ugly head once again. And it&#8217;s never really<br \/>\nabout the tool \u2013 it&#8217;s about who has the loudest megaphone to calm us\/rile us up<br \/>\nwhile the earth trembles ever so repeatedly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">There is also the general dearth of good storytelling out<br \/>\nthere. In my freelance writing for Dallas\u2019 flagship monthly magazine, D, (think<br \/>\nNew York magazine with a slight twang) I\u2019ve gone for short form storytelling<br \/>\nwhile also informing people of trends or unseen gems in my orbit \u2013 a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmagazine.com\/food-drink\/2026\/09\/jimmys-food-store-italian-favorites\/\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">neighborhood<br \/>\ngrocery store<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\"> worth building a shopping list around, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmagazine.com\/publications\/d-magazine\/2026\/august\/authentic-coastal-italian-cuisine-dallas\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">manufactured<br \/>\ncoastline<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\"> worth calling out \u2013 they\u2019ve been well received, and gotten<br \/>\ngood traffic, and while that wasn\u2019t my sole objective, it offers a critical<br \/>\nmetric which is the needed oxygen for today\u2019s online world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">I can see why so many folks who lay a claim to being a wine<br \/>\nwriter are lamenting that their platforms have all but been abandoned by<br \/>\npeople, who a mere 10 or 15 years ago, flocked to the sites in copious amounts,<br \/>\ninhaling and ravishing any little tidbit of vinous information, in search of a<br \/>\ngood glass of wine. It used to be better. Now it\u2019s gotten murky and cloudy and<br \/>\nstifling. No wonder the wine mavens now all talk at and past each other \u2013 most<br \/>\neveryone has left the room years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiB61uSHS6UUDN-O6MtVhF8UJRx0NShAiTxYYYEufoGtqd2urRIprprez_ONMa3o3p3sMUkIn9X8JcEnj6rvpMMRkSkm7CdBT2-lYsOelpkHMQxOjNTZXHG6Fr3pnrBFr7wIAbOZaHxolUYUsOIwDzXlfg2cerRS19-yhet3U3kQIjMWNJbe1F-\/s4288\/DSC_1093.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2848\" data-original-width=\"4288\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiB61uSHS6UUDN-O6MtVhF8UJRx0NShAiTxYYYEufoGtqd2urRIprprez_ONMa3o3p3sMUkIn9X8JcEnj6rvpMMRkSkm7CdBT2-lYsOelpkHMQxOjNTZXHG6Fr3pnrBFr7wIAbOZaHxolUYUsOIwDzXlfg2cerRS19-yhet3U3kQIjMWNJbe1F-\/w400-h266\/DSC_1093.JPG\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">When did it become a bloody dog-eat-dogmatic world? Or better yet,<br \/>\nwhy\u203d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">I\u2019m gonna throw some diesel on the bonfire I\u2019ve already<br \/>\nstarted and state out front that there are too many people trying to monetize<br \/>\ntheir writing and it has caused a huge fragmentation among the readers \u2013 they<br \/>\nsimply cannot afford it in economic terms, and further they do not have the<br \/>\nattention bandwidth to absorb and digest all the information that the wine<br \/>\nwriting community produces<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u203d<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\"> There have been several folks<br \/>\nwho have done a cost analysis, if one were to subscribe to all the major<br \/>\npublications and then add the top 10-20 fee-based Substack sites. It\u2019s<br \/>\nthousands of dollars a year, not to mention the time it would take to go through<br \/>\nall of the material. If it were worth it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">And it doesn\u2019t look like many people are saying it is worth it<br \/>\nthese days. Look, no one wants to work for free. But a blog, like mine, for<br \/>\ninstance, while it is free to the readers who come to it weekly for the past 20<br \/>\nyears, it does act like a billboard for my writing style and subjects and it<br \/>\ndoes lead to paying gigs. Do I need the money? Well, I do have my vices \u2013 I really<br \/>\nlike to play around with photography equipment \u2013 and that can get expensive at<br \/>\ntimes. But I also use that equipment to augment my writing and it has brought<br \/>\nme income streams as well. So, while I do not depend upon writing for a living,<br \/>\nand while I do understand there are folks out there who would like to support<br \/>\nthemselves, solely, with their writing, I know (as they do) that there are only<br \/>\na few who actually make enough money to support themselves in a fairly comfortable<br \/>\nlifestyle setting. Like actors or artists or athletes, there is only so much<br \/>\nroom at the top. Do I like that? Well, if I had my druthers, I\u2019d love to see<br \/>\nmore folks sharing the limelight and the financial rewards. But the market<br \/>\ndrives those metrics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">I was in sales. Reluctantly. My dad was a salesman. And a good<br \/>\none. But it just didn\u2019t feel like my jam. I did, however, make a study of it<br \/>\nand didn\u2019t do too badly at it. But what the commercial world taught me was that<br \/>\nthere is competition and if you don\u2019t find a way to compete, you get left<br \/>\nbehind to wail and flail in the wind. Get in and get in the game or get out. I<br \/>\nthink that might be similar in the writing world. And in the uber-scrunchy<br \/>\nminiscule world of wine writing, there are even fewer angels dancing on the<br \/>\nhead of that pin. Meanwhile in today\u2019s open-media landscape, folks put up a<br \/>\nSubstack or a WordPress (or a Blogger!) and, like the town criers we all are,<br \/>\npeel off and let \u2018er rip. And this is where we have landed now, in 2026. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">* <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>*<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>*<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>*<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>*<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">All this has made me thirsty. We\u2019re finally getting a break in<br \/>\nthe 100\u00b0F weather here in North Texas. Haven\u2019t had rain in months. I can hardly<br \/>\nwait for the weather to cool even more, so I can make my Eggplant Parmigiana<br \/>\nfor Rocco. That\u2019s what I am looking forward to \u2013 opening a good bottle of<br \/>\nMontepulciano d\u2019Abruzzo to go with the Parmigiana and sharing the food (not the<br \/>\nwine) with man\u2019s best friend, my dog.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgrC7ON7w2yzB1FO_n0XKrb1zkh4M-uQ90XzkRnZzTUnDZJS1ox9_OFw7CU5jv9UgLzE12vCyOhJ_lzMSz6ysmgxIp5YEsRkGhfVjTibFHw_VoFU4U1eXqQF1DbB7GcuUXwTv-eymtVAUh5Xjj2BcdEE76xk1VePsxH1RzahL-ODQ8Dz3cEfp2O\/s4080\/20260726_144934.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3060\" data-original-width=\"4080\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgrC7ON7w2yzB1FO_n0XKrb1zkh4M-uQ90XzkRnZzTUnDZJS1ox9_OFw7CU5jv9UgLzE12vCyOhJ_lzMSz6ysmgxIp5YEsRkGhfVjTibFHw_VoFU4U1eXqQF1DbB7GcuUXwTv-eymtVAUh5Xjj2BcdEE76xk1VePsxH1RzahL-ODQ8Dz3cEfp2O\/w400-h300\/20260726_144934.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;\">And dogma be doggoned, just for a blessed moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nwine blog +\u00a0   Italian wine blog   + Italy   W<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud834\udd58\ud834\udd65\ud834\udd70\u00a0 Don&#8217;t bother they&#8217;re here \ud834\udd58\ud834\udd65\ud834\udd70\u00a0 When I look at the \u201cinside baseball\u201d world of wine writing lately, I want to puke. It is as if this little manufactured bubble, which displays little if anything of a natural reality, exists for the simple reason that folks need something to hang onto in regard to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7068903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[227790,7055,2456],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7068902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dogma","tag-drinking","tag-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Drinking without Dogma \u2013 Writing without Wonder\u203d - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drinking without Dogma \u2013 Writing without Wonder\u203d - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\ud834\udd58\ud834\udd65\ud834\udd70\u00a0 Don&#8217;t bother they&#8217;re here \ud834\udd58\ud834\udd65\ud834\udd70\u00a0 When I look at the \u201cinside baseball\u201d world of wine writing lately, I want to puke. It is as if this little manufactured bubble, which displays little if anything of a natural reality, exists for the simple reason that folks need something to hang onto in regard to the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-28T05:38:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ron20Washam20and20Hugh20Johnson1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371\"},\"headline\":\"Drinking without Dogma \u2013 Writing without Wonder\u203d\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-28T05:38:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902\"},\"wordCount\":1161,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ron20Washam20and20Hugh20Johnson1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"dogma\",\"Drinking\",\"Writing\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902\",\"name\":\"Drinking without Dogma \u2013 Writing without Wonder\u203d - Som2ny Network\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ron20Washam20and20Hugh20Johnson1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-28T05:38:27+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ron20Washam20and20Hugh20Johnson1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ron20Washam20and20Hugh20Johnson1.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":630},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?bp_activities=1\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Drinking without Dogma \u2013 Writing without Wonder\u203d\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/\",\"name\":\"Som2ny Network\",\"description\":\"Daily Deals\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Som2ny Network\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":86,\"caption\":\"Som2ny Network\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Drinking without Dogma \u2013 Writing without Wonder\u203d - Som2ny Network","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Drinking without Dogma \u2013 Writing without Wonder\u203d - Som2ny Network","og_description":"\ud834\udd58\ud834\udd65\ud834\udd70\u00a0 Don&#8217;t bother they&#8217;re here \ud834\udd58\ud834\udd65\ud834\udd70\u00a0 When I look at the \u201cinside baseball\u201d world of wine writing lately, I want to puke. It is as if this little manufactured bubble, which displays little if anything of a natural reality, exists for the simple reason that folks need something to hang onto in regard to the [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902","og_site_name":"Som2ny Network","article_published_time":"2026-09-28T05:38:27+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ron20Washam20and20Hugh20Johnson1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371"},"headline":"Drinking without Dogma \u2013 Writing without Wonder\u203d","datePublished":"2026-09-28T05:38:27+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902"},"wordCount":1161,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ron20Washam20and20Hugh20Johnson1.jpg","keywords":["dogma","Drinking","Writing"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902","name":"Drinking without Dogma \u2013 Writing without Wonder\u203d - Som2ny Network","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ron20Washam20and20Hugh20Johnson1.jpg","datePublished":"2026-09-28T05:38:27+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ron20Washam20and20Hugh20Johnson1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ron20Washam20and20Hugh20Johnson1.jpg","width":1200,"height":630},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068902#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?bp_activities=1"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Drinking without Dogma \u2013 Writing without Wonder\u203d"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/","name":"Som2ny Network","description":"Daily Deals","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization","name":"Som2ny Network","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png","width":300,"height":86,"caption":"Som2ny Network"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/fivemor.com"],"url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7068902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7068903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7068902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7068902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7068902"},{"taxonomy":"dealstore","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdealstore&post=7068902"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fofferexpiration&post=7068902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}