{"id":6082,"date":"2022-04-26T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","slug":"coffee-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6082","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE SHOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a general rule, I don&#8217;t pay for coffee away from home. What I pay is the price of admission to a coffee shop.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am buying an experience, not a beverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When indoor seating in coffee shops was suspended by the pandemic, I was amazed to see people continue through the drive-thru.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why? For heated bean water?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s not worth 3 or 4 or 5 bucks a cup. Not in my book.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(If you are going to get addicted to something, find something cheap. That&#8217;s my motto.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the value of even 20 minutes in a coffee shop cannot be easily calculated.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a place to think. To discuss. To breathe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A coffee shop reminds you that you are an adult.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that being an adult is not all bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a general rule, I don&#8217;t pay for coffee away from home. What I pay is the price of admission to a coffee shop. I am buying an experience, not a beverage.\u00a0 When indoor seating in coffee shops was suspended by the pandemic, I was amazed to see people continue through the drive-thru.\u00a0 Why? For [&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-6082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082","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=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions\/6083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}