{"id":5021,"date":"2022-11-14T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","slug":"coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5021","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some people are addicted to coffee. I am not.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the price of coffee <b><i>doubled <\/i><\/b>tomorrow, I wouldn&#8217;t just cut my consumption in half &#8211; I would stop drinking coffee altogether.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(That would be so that Melissa could continue to drink her coffee at her usual rate with no impact on our family budget. Because that&#8217;s the kind of guy I am.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if I stopped, it would be cold turkey and it would not bother me a bit. (Although it might be a bit more difficult in the winter than in the summer.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really only enjoy two things about coffee:<\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>It&#8217;s warm.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>It reminds me I am an adult.<\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flavor is OK, but I am more of a chocolate guy. And I am not really affected by caffeine, so that doesn&#8217;t figure into the equation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hot chocolate is warm and delicious, but it isn&#8217;t as adulty.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And besides, I can&#8217;t afford all those extra calories.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I guess to me coffee is the equivalent of &#8220;diet hot chocolate&#8221; &#8211; I drink it instead of what I really want because it&#8217;s better than nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people are addicted to coffee. I am not.\u00a0 If the price of coffee doubled tomorrow, I wouldn&#8217;t just cut my consumption in half &#8211; I would stop drinking coffee altogether.\u00a0 (That would be so that Melissa could continue to drink her coffee at her usual rate with no impact on our family budget. Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}