To become an honorary Newfoundlander, there\u2019s a ritual where you recite a limerick, kiss a cod, and down a shot of the local booze, Screech Rum. As you might expect, it\u2019s a big hit in bars, where sometimes visitors, usually a little tipsy, are invited to stand on the bar and shout out the verse, before kissing the fish and claiming their new status as a local in front of a crowd. … read more here<\/a>\u00a0in the Boston Globe<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To become an honorary Newfoundlander, there\u2019s a ritual where you recite a limerick, kiss a cod, and down a shot of the local booze, Screech Rum. As you might expect, it\u2019s a big hit in bars, where sometimes visitors, usually a little tipsy, are invited to stand on the bar and shout out the verse, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kfmwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kfmwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kfmwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kfmwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kfmwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kfmwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"http:\/\/kfmwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kfmwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kfmwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kfmwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}