{"id":9,"date":"2023-08-05T10:38:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T17:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whiskymates.wordpress.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:47:02","slug":"the-origin-of-whisky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/05\/the-origin-of-whisky\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of Whisky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know: The Scots Gaelic for aqua vitae (\u201cwater of life\u201d in Latin) is Uisge Beatha, which is pronounced \u201coosh-kie bay-ahah\u201d.  This was abbreviated as simply uiskie in the 17th century and finally to the more familiar \u201cwhiskie\u201d in the early 18th century. We now just call it Whisky. The more you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/origin-of-whisky.jpeg?w=353\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" style=\"width:645px;height:605px\" width=\"645\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/origin-of-whisky.jpeg 353w, https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/origin-of-whisky-300x281.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know: The Scots Gaelic for aqua vitae (\u201cwater of life\u201d in Latin) is Uisge Beatha, which is pronounced \u201coosh-kie bay-ahah\u201d. This was abbreviated as simply uiskie in the 17th century and finally to the more familiar \u201cwhiskie\u201d in the early 18th century. We now just call it Whisky. The more you know.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}