{"id":18623,"date":"2017-04-10T18:48:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T23:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18623"},"modified":"2017-04-10T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T23:48:29","slug":"the-rights-of-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18623","title":{"rendered":"The rights of coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, the first thought I had when I awoke was this: &#8220;There is such a thing as going too far.  After all, there are things to consider beyond the rights of coffee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it wasn&#8217;t quite my first waking thought.  It was more like my last dreaming thought.  Apparently, I had been in the middle of a sentence during my last dream before awakening.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fascinating peek inside a very different reality.  Clearly the ostensibly absurd logic of dreams is something the dreamer takes very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing to me, even after all these years, that these two parallel worlds can exist in our minds:  Our (more or less) shared world of waking reality, and the wild anything-goes universe that each of us travels to every time we close our eyes for the night.<\/p>\n<p>In the land of dreams, where anything is possible, even the rights of coffee can be a topic for debate.  Not that I have anything against coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, the first thought I had when I awoke was this: &#8220;There is such a thing as going too far. After all, there are things to consider beyond the rights of coffee.&#8221; Actually, it wasn&#8217;t quite my first waking thought. It was more like my last dreaming thought. Apparently, I had been in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18623\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The rights of coffee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18624,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623\/revisions\/18624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}