{"id":19887,"date":"2023-11-29T17:37:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=19887"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:13:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T19:13:59","slug":"the-personal-saga-of-cori-cat-sober-bartender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2023\/11\/29\/the-personal-saga-of-cori-cat-sober-bartender\/","title":{"rendered":"The personal saga of Cori Cat, sober bartender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Reviewer TV]<br \/>\n<strong><\/p>\n<h1>&#8220;Being a human being is being a herd animal.&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><\/strong><br \/>\nCori Cat is a working bartender in North County San Diego who has been in the business for 22 years, almost half of which as a sober person who manages her trade without the use of any drugs or alcohol. Here&#8217;s her Reviewer TV interview.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been interested in stories of people who have overcome adversity, and one kind is the bar worker who serves drinks after quitting the drinking lifestyle. It takes a special kind of fortitude in an individual to accomplish that. Cori is one such bartender in San Diego County and she met with Reviewer TV (me, specifically) yesterday to tell her story. It&#8217;s a good one too.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BzCLehPt0Xo?si=dG7lILiIvusnMaW0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nPatreon members may click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/93779623\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> to watch the hour-long video interview today. It will be released on <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/reviewer\/videos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> in two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Reviewer TV] &#8220;Being a human being is being a herd animal.&#8221; Cori Cat is a working bartender in North County San Diego who has been in the business for 22 years, almost half of which as a sober person who manages her trade without the use of any drugs or alcohol. Here&#8217;s her Reviewer TV interview. I&#8217;ve always been interested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":19888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cori-cat-16-33-edit-copy-1000px.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20015,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2024\/01\/20\/reviewer-tv-carlsbad-train-suicide-witness\/","url_meta":{"origin":19887,"position":0},"title":"REVIEWER.TV Carlsbad Train Suicide Witness: &#8220;He did it on purpose.&#8221;","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"January 20, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"[First-person Account] \"What I saw is what I saw.\"When what was not sought gets seen January 15, 2023: Some poor soul checked out early this afternoon in Carlsbad by standing in front of a speeding Surfliner train, arms open in the Jesus Christ pose, facing his oncoming destiny. 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