{"id":208,"date":"2012-01-15T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T19:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.wordpress.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2012-01-15T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T19:01:06","slug":"the-coffee-is-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"The Coffee is Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a nerd.  I freely admit it. I have forewarned you.  I love goofiness and writing about it. The Lord of the Rings is my favorite story of all time, but I have a complete blast thinking of parodies.  I owe this to Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus and the Holy Grail as the corrupting force to my soul.  I think Red Skelton once said that if him playing a clown made you laugh, then he did his job.  Well, I like to make people laugh, cry and think.  And speaking of thinking, it is not a possibility until I have had at least one full pot of coffee &#8211; Colombian Supremo.  Black, no sugar, sweetener, half-and-half, or pinch of whatever.  If I wanted hot cocoa, I&#8217;d make hot cocoa.  It is far cheaper. If you put anything in coffee, it is no longer coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this, if the One Ring had diamonds in it, would Gollum still be hissing &#8220;precioussss?&#8221; Or, would he be taking it to the nearest SauronZales and demand the engagement to evil come with a larger diamond, because the dwarves&#8217; diamonds were bigger?  Would he call it his &#8220;Bling, bling, bling?&#8221; Somehow it just doesn&#8217;t sound right does it? I forewarned you. &#8220;We swears to the bling, bling, bling!&#8221;  If Samwise Gamgee brewed a pot of &#8220;Mocha Latte Espresso Java Killer&#8221;, Gollum would be looking all disgusted and saying &#8220;Eh, what&#8217;s Mocha Latte Espresso Java Killer, eh, bling, bling, bling?&#8221;  Then he&#8217;d spit at Sam and I&#8217;d join into say, &#8220;He wastes it, bling, bling bling. Stupid fat Hobbit!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now every morning for 31 years (I forewarned her, too) my wife has had to put up with this nerdiness and lovingly refers to me as the &#8220;Chatty Cathy Doll.&#8221;  I call out for &#8220;precious&#8221; and she inflicts me with some form of verbal abuse but she, too is useless until she has had a Mocha Latte Espresso Java Killer.  I simply reply to her verbal abuse, &#8220;It&#8217;s only a flesh wound!&#8221; and continue with my rambling.  So if you are like my wife and are ready to choke me, I do have a defense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The coffee made us do it! It is talking to us; it was the bling, bling, bling!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a nerd. I freely admit it. I have forewarned you. I love goofiness and writing about it. The Lord of the Rings is my favorite story of all time, but I have a complete blast thinking of parodies. I owe this to Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus and the Holy Grail as the corrupting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-humor","7":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}