{"id":14483,"date":"2017-07-31T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=14483"},"modified":"2017-11-11T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T23:01:19","slug":"14483","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2017\/07\/31\/14483\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking It With Ben Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Sobriety]<\/p>\n<h1><strong><\/p>\n<h1>Sober Ben Johnson<\/h1>\n<p><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<h1>How one drunk stopped being a drunk<\/h1>\n<h3>First in a series of videos on getting away from addiction<\/h3>\n<p>by Reviewer Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14484\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/227590526\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14484\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sober-ben-johnson-interview-700px.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Reviewer TV Sober Ben Johnson interview clip frame.\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sober-ben-johnson-interview-700px.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sober-ben-johnson-interview-700px.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reviewer TV Sober Ben Johnson interview clip frame. <b>Click image for <a href=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/227590526\">video<\/a>.<\/b><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be doing some &#8220;Getting Sober&#8221; videos to document ways people kick self-destructive addictions. So for the first of them I sought out Ben Johnson, the owner of the The Casbah (one of the owners) who is also the bartender there. He was a heavy drinker before, and it was wrecking his life. But then he stopped. All of a sudden. Cold turkey. Now he works the bar most every night and when he isn&#8217;t pouring he&#8217;s often performing in a bar somewhere in one of his bands. And he never touches booze. Not everyone can do that. Listen to his story.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/227590526\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Sobriety] Sober Ben Johnson How one drunk stopped being a drunk First in a series of videos on getting away from addiction by Reviewer Rob I&#8217;m going to be doing some &#8220;Getting Sober&#8221; videos to document ways people kick self-destructive addictions. So for the first of them I sought out Ben Johnson, the owner of the The Casbah (one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1476,828,731,605,747,582,730,613],"tags":[1477,1473,1475,1474],"class_list":["post-14483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction-series","category-adventure-central","category-first-person-account","category-health-and-fitness","category-living-by-the-sword","category-nightlife","category-opinion","category-san-diego","tag-acciction-series","tag-addiction-series-1-sober-ben-johnson","tag-kicking-it","tag-sobriety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2466,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2010\/06\/06\/ben-johnson-plays-it-straight\/","url_meta":{"origin":14483,"position":0},"title":"Ben Johnson Plays It Straight","author":"admin","date":"June 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"[Video Interview]\"I Don't Judge People\"\"I was never a glass of wine with dinner...\"Ben Johnson of The Long and Short Of It, Hostile Combover, a new rap project and The Casbah, talks with Reviewer Rob at The Living Room Coffee Shop in Point Loma, on 6\/5\/10, about his band's videos, his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15441,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2018\/08\/09\/sober-ben-johnson\/","url_meta":{"origin":14483,"position":1},"title":"Sober: Ben Johnson &#8212; the Kicking Addiction interview","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"August 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"[Transcript] Sober: Ben Johnson Ben is one of the owners of the legendary San Diego Casbah and bartends there when he's not playing locally in one of his bands. 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