{"id":2003,"date":"2009-11-18T11:25:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2009-11-18T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:25:48","slug":"acknowledging-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/18\/acknowledging-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledging Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I stopped at Starbucks on my way to work, as I do every morning without fail.\u00c2\u00a0 I gave my order to the cashier and she repeated it to the barista (a nice word for coffee schlepper) who looked at me, looked around helplessly and said, &#8220;But where&#8217;s his cup?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You see, I normally bring my own cup, which is rather identifiable, but had forgotten it on my desk the day before.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, clearly I have been spending way way too much money at Starbucks if this kind of thing happens.\u00c2\u00a0 So, on one hand I am doing my best to save the environment, but on the other hand I am clearly powerless when it comes to deliciously wonderful coffee, and this habit is sucking $5.37 out of my pocket every day, not to mention the caffeine I&#8217;m consuming.<\/p>\n<p>Funny how things change.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember when I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/20\/a-small-lifestyle-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">off caffeine altogether<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 Remember when we discussed the merits of coffee:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/coffee-counter-intuitive\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Timmies vs Good Coffee anywhere else<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 (Special bonus is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/coffee-counter-intuitive\/#comment-53636\" target=\"_blank\">this comment from Ali<\/a>, which I had forgotten about and which still makes me laugh)<\/p>\n<p>My name is Courtney, and I like coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I stopped at Starbucks on my way to work, as I do every morning without fail.\u00c2\u00a0 I gave my order to the cashier and she repeated it to the barista (a nice word for coffee schlepper) who looked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/18\/acknowledging-addiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[212,94],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","tag-black-gold","tag-coffee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-wj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}