{"id":21129,"date":"2013-01-24T02:16:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T05:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=21129"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:56:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:56:35","slug":"us-air-force-transports-whisky-to-south-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/us-air-force-transports-whisky-to-south-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Transports Whisky to South Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the US Air Force transports blankets and bottled water to disaster-stricken areas.\u00a0 Sometimes it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/europe\/explorer-s-rare-scotch-returned-to-antarctic-stash-1.204488\">delivers century-old Scotch<\/a> to Antarctica.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three bottles of rare, 19th century Scotch found beneath the floor boards of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackelton&#8217;s abandoned expedition base were returned to the polar continent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The original bottles had flown in two combination-locked containers with Key to Antarctica in a U.S. Air Force transport plane from Christchurch&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mind you, this isn&#8217;t the first time Air Force aircraft have transported alcohol &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/air-force-makes-worlds-largest-beer-run\/\">a <em>lot <\/em>of it<\/a> &#8212; to the region.\u00a0 Truth be told, that&#8217;s pretty much the only way anything gets to Antarctica, which likely means the planes carry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2008\/06\/09\/us-condoms-idUSN0943167020080609\">other items that would raise some eyebrows<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; but all for the greater good, of course.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the US Air Force transports blankets and bottled water to disaster-stricken areas.\u00a0 Sometimes it delivers century-old Scotch to Antarctica. Three bottles of rare, 19th century Scotch found beneath the floor boards of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackelton&#8217;s abandoned expedition base were returned to the polar continent&#8230; The original bottles had flown in two combination-locked containers with Key to Antarctica in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,1061,1312,3829,3828,2,3827,3826],"class_list":["post-21129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-alcohol","tag-antarctica","tag-christchurch","tag-ernest-shackelton","tag-military","tag-scotch","tag-whisky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}