{"id":1100,"date":"2008-09-28T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T11:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2008-09-28T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T11:02:53","slug":"home-brewed-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"Home Brewed Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, it&#8217;s almost impossible to avoid preachy advice columns about how to save money, and coffee shop prices seem to be a favorite target.<br \/>\n&#8220;Better to home brew&#8221;, although the lady who drank her morning cuppa after it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/chi-ap-ia-odd-batbrew,0,7361901.story\">filtered through a bat<\/a> that had hidden in her coffeemaker might disagree.<br \/>\nThese discussions remind me of a group of masochistic housemates I met years ago who were insanely, nuttily frugal.<br \/>\nOne of their economies was to brew coffee only once every several days. I don&#8217;t recall the exact schedule, nor why they thought that this saved money.  I do recall their otherwise dour faces breaking into dreamy smiles when they thought about being able to drink coffee on the day it was brewed.<br \/>\nAn example of collective insanity, which is perhaps why this particular memory is paradigmatic for this particular point in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, it&#8217;s almost impossible to avoid preachy advice columns about how to save money, and coffee shop prices seem to be a favorite target. &#8220;Better to home brew&#8221;, although the lady who drank her morning cuppa after it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}