{"id":1476,"date":"2012-08-22T08:40:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T12:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2012-08-22T08:44:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T12:44:18","slug":"coffee-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2012\/08\/22\/coffee-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1477\" title=\"black coffee\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/coffee.png\" alt=\"black coffee\" width=\"150\" height=\"194\" \/>The airport was crowded, busy, and the girl in front of me was ordering this coffee-drink. You know, the kind of coffee-drink with the fancy-ass name that takes two breaths to say, and dammit it had better be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">exactly<\/span> right or else&#8230; You&#8217;ve heard the expression <em>high maintenance<\/em>? The epitome, right there in front of me, at the front of the line, standing at the service counter. So she made her order and I rolled my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The kid behind the counter glanced at me, I met his eye and said simply, &#8220;Coffee. Black.&#8221; The kid turned to his work&#8230; and turned back almost immediately with my black. The girl sputtered, started getting arrogant. I smiled and slid a fin, a crazy over-payment for the black, across the counter, turned and walked away. I didn&#8217;t look back.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t mind meeting up with her again in the middle of the apocalypse, watching her cope. It&#8217;d be cheap entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airport was crowded, busy, and the girl in front of me was ordering this coffee-drink. You know, the kind of coffee-drink with the fancy-ass name that takes two breaths to say, and dammit it had better be exactly right or else&#8230; You&#8217;ve heard the expression high maintenance? The epitome, right there in front of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2012\/08\/22\/coffee-stop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coffee Stop<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[21,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}