{"id":25423,"date":"2019-12-27T07:41:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25423"},"modified":"2019-12-27T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T13:42:22","slug":"photographing-my-coffee-in-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/27\/photographing-my-coffee-in-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing My Coffee In Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I had a little time to kill whilst my truck was getting a state inspection, and I went to a coffee shop with my notepad in case I wanted to write a poem&#8211;or work on one that will take me five years to complete.  So I went in and ordered a cappuccino and a pastry.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to go all Instagram on you, but I got this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cappuccino.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A coffee thing served in a glass along side a fizzing clear glass of something.<\/p>\n<p>I have never seen cappuccino served like this, and, to be honest, gentle reader, I was not sure what was in that other glass nor what I was supposed to do with it.  Did the order taker hear something other than what I ordered?  Did the shop have a liquor license, and I ordered myself some coffee-and-booze cocktail with a chaser?<\/p>\n<p>I fear the unexpected and unknown consumable ever since the Great Sushi Incident of 2005, wherein I went to a sushi restaurant with a more sophisticated friend who was surprised to see me take up the pile of pickled ginger with my chopsticks and pop it into my mouth.  Not as surprised as I was, although I managed to keep my face stony whilst the sweat burst forth from my volcanic pores.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, I have no idea what that was, and I&#8217;ll probably fear ordering a cappuccino there again.  The coffee drink was a small portion and not especially compelling.  I didn&#8217;t even sniff the clear liquid, preferring to pretend I was sophisticated enough to know what it was and that I eschewed it knowingly.  But, yeah, black coffee for me from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I had a little time to kill whilst my truck was getting a state inspection, and I went to a coffee shop with my notepad in case I wanted to write a poem&#8211;or work on one that will take me five years to complete. So I went in and ordered a cappuccino and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25426,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25423\/revisions\/25426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}