{"id":9640,"date":"2022-12-18T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T14:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/?p=9640"},"modified":"2022-12-18T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T14:42:57","slug":"regula-staempfli-on-the-intoxication-of-sobriety-english-translation-of-her-essay-in-ensuite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/?p=9640","title":{"rendered":"Regula Staempfli on &#8220;The Intoxication of Sobriety&#8221;. English translation of her essay in ensuite."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ensuite \u2013 Zeitschrift zu Kultur &amp; Kunst<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>17. Dezember 2022 \u2013 first published in German October 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Essay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Intoxication of Sobriety<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alcohol is the lubricant of careers: Political philosopher laStaempfli (Regula St\u00e4mpfli) describes in an unusual personal essay what it meant for her to get sober during the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Regula Staempfli \u2013 www.regulastaempfli.eu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-12-18-um-15.38.05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-12-18-um-15.38.05-1024x507.png\" alt=\"Regula Staempfli English Essay on Sobriety - Translation from her article in ensuite Oktober 2022 - picture here with Octoberfest-Beertent. \" class=\"wp-image-9643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-12-18-um-15.38.05-1024x507.png 1024w, https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-12-18-um-15.38.05-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-12-18-um-15.38.05-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-12-18-um-15.38.05-1536x760.png 1536w, https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-12-18-um-15.38.05-2048x1013.png 2048w, https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-12-18-um-15.38.05-500x247.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Regula Staempfli English Essay on Sobriety &#8211; Translation from her article in ensuite Oktober 2022 &#8211; picture here with Octoberfest-Beer-Tent. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I wrote my essay for a Swiss magazine, Munich was the capitol of booze: The \u201cOctoberfest\u201d flooded the city with madness and only one goal: To get as drunk as possible. I don&#8217;t like beer, I never did and since the pandemic 2020 I live alcohol-free, with a few exceptions, countable on one hand. I say this so in case somebody sees me with a wineglass will not shout across the room \u201cbut I thought you were sober\u201d. It will be apple juice mixed with water as to look like white wine because being sober in Switzerland, France, Italy, Belgium, London and Germany where I work and travel, counts as a crime. I never tried telling anyone apart from my family that I don\u2019t drink, since the conversations, especially with friends, are painful. Either the friends start telling me how often they stop drinking, then they urge me to celebrate the occasion and life is so short that my very happy life as an alcohol-free person starts to wobble. Read more : <a href=\"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19-dec-alcoholfree-laStaempfli.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19-dec-alcoholfree-laStaempfli.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ensuite \u2013 Zeitschrift zu Kultur &amp; Kunst 17. Dezember 2022 \u2013 first published in German October 2022 Essay The Intoxication of Sobriety Alcohol is the lubricant of careers: Political philosopher laStaempfli (Regula St\u00e4mpfli) describes in an unusual personal essay what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/?p=9640\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5685,5684],"tags":[8522,8532,8529,8523,8533,8524,8534,8531,8527,8017,8525,8526,8520,8521,8530],"class_list":["post-9640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ad-personam","category-politik-philosophie-design-it","tag-alcohol-free","tag-connection-instead-of-addiction","tag-drugs","tag-essay-by-lastaempfli","tag-happy-life","tag-how-to-become-sober","tag-intoxication-through-alcohol-free-life","tag-johan-hari","tag-life-changer-sobriety","tag-narrative","tag-pandemic-2","tag-personal-change","tag-regula-staempfli-english-essay-on-sobriety-translation-from-her-article-in-ensuite-oktober-2022-picture-here-with-octoberfest-beertent","tag-sober-curious","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}