{"id":598,"date":"2000-03-07T18:11:10","date_gmt":"2000-03-07T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2000\/03\/07\/598\/"},"modified":"2015-12-07T21:57:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T02:57:45","slug":"blood-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2000\/03\/07\/blood-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"blood coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~ trying to spend thirty minutes out of the los angeles cold, we entered <a href=\"\/log\/images\/daily\/daily35.jpg\" title=\"daily image\">norm&#8217;s<\/a> &#8211; an american version of vips &#8211; to consume a cup of that to which they liberally refer as &#8216;coffee&#8217;. the plastic card on the table touted a new &#8216;coffee choice&#8217;, called &#8216;vienna roast&#8217;, which promised to be a &#8216;darker roast&#8217; than their standard fare. we demanded that the waiter bring to us a cup, and he warned us of its strength; before our temper with him was lost over this insult &#8211; that their coffee would be too strong for us &#8211; he saved himself with the comment that we shouldn&#8217;t worry about the price, because there is no extra charge for the &#8216;special roast&#8217;.  notwithstanding our expectation for norm&#8217;s coffee to be of very poor quality, we were duly impressed with the beverage. it is not out of the question that we may actually return to norm&#8217;s someday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/logdot.gif\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>~ we and our current out-of-town guest donated platelets at the <a href=\"\/log\/images\/daily\/daily32.jpg\" title=\"daily image\">santa monica<\/a> red cross office; the angry red planet encourages others to do the same in their neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ trying to spend thirty minutes out of the los angeles cold, we entered norm&#8217;s &#8211; an american version of vips &#8211; to consume a cup of that to which they liberally refer as &#8216;coffee&#8217;. the plastic card on the table touted a new &#8216;coffee choice&#8217;, called &#8216;vienna roast&#8217;, which promised to be a &#8216;darker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-coffee"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}