{"id":1550,"date":"2010-09-11T23:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T03:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2020-04-05T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T17:21:43","slug":"the-best-cup-of-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/11\/the-best-cup-of-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"The best cup of coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I&#8217;m sitting up until all hours, watching Black Hawk Down, because my brother in law went and reminded me of it, so now I have to watch it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m at the scene where the dude with the strange and mysterious skill that&#8217;s kept him out of combat for three deployments (typing) is bedding down for a highly hostile and dangerous night in the city. For whatever reason, he&#8217;s brought his coffee grinder, some beans, and a strainer (as opposed to, say, ammo). He&#8217;s making coffee for the Delta guys who are going to keep them alive until sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, not that there&#8217;s any comparison, but it reminded me of a cup of coffee I had in Haiti, in February of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks, Alan, for making space for the good stuff &#8230; and a grinder to do it justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the little things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m sitting up until all hours, watching Black Hawk Down, because my brother in law went and reminded me of it, so now I have to watch it again. And I&#8217;m at the scene where the dude with the strange and mysterious skill that&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}