{"id":71,"date":"2005-11-12T07:59:57","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2018-04-26T15:19:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T21:19:22","slug":"it-beckoned-sweetly-through-the-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"It beckoned sweetly through the darkness."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxwillow\/61938756\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/32\/61938756_450f0624f6_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n \n<\/div>\n<p>Returning from up north on Monday mornings&#8230;. I leave alone and very early to get back in time for work (a bit late). When it&#8217;s cold and dark and lonely, a stop for a hot cup of coffee is welcome. Doesn&#8217;t need to be fancy, just friendly. It&#8217;s the way I start the trip. It&#8217;s the way I say good-bye to the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This got me thinking.  my first personal coffe experience (aside from my mother who is a five-cup-a-day person) was when I needed something warm to hold (not drink) during cold autumn football games.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve come to enjoy it.  But only partly for the taste.  Largely, it is something more&#8230; the aroma in the morning, the sharingness of coffee and conversation late at night, the steam in my face from a thermos during a cold winter walk, a warm break on a long drive.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, coffee is more an experience than a taste for me. It is warmth and sharing. I never drink alone.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(linked from Helen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Flickr account)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning from up north on Monday mornings&#8230;. I leave alone and very early to get back in time for work (a bit late). When it&#8217;s cold and dark and lonely, a stop for a hot cup of coffee is welcome. Doesn&#8217;t need to be fancy, just friendly. It&#8217;s the way I start the trip. It&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-flickrphotos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}