{"id":22090,"date":"2014-01-27T07:13:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=22090"},"modified":"2014-01-27T07:13:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:13:45","slug":"attention-all-tea-snobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/01\/27\/attention-all-tea-snobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention All Tea Snobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3568\/3550602651_775d24d326_b.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3568\/3550602651_775d24d326_b.jpg?resize=683%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I reported earlier that I have officially gone <a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/12\/02\/your-coffee-maker-has-failed-you-up-until-this-point\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/12\/02\/your-coffee-maker-has-failed-you-up-until-this-point\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Full Coffee Snob<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and I am now blissfully in love with my Chemex and my <a title=\"https:\/\/tonx.org\/ecfc0b2f\" href=\"https:\/\/tonx.org\/ecfc0b2f\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tonx Coffee<\/strong><\/span><\/a> subscription.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8212; if I am a burgeoning cellist or museum curator in the coffee department&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, in the\u00a0<em>tea<\/em> department I&#8217;m basically a garbageman.<\/p>\n<p>I have no technique when it comes to tea. No care for quality. I take a bag. Not long ago I microwaved the water and the bag together &#8212; now I&#8217;m actually at least using my swan neck kettle to pour the hot water over it. Then: milk. And I leave the tea bag in there the whole time I drink it.<\/p>\n<p>My teabags are probably filled with pesticide-shellacked pencil shavings. It&#8217;s probably a 1:1 ratio of\u00a0<em>actual tea<\/em> and\u00a0<em>somebody&#8217;s pubes<\/em>. The gods only know what the hell I&#8217;m actually drinking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m told many of these things are anathema to the\u00a0<em>true tea drinker<\/em>, so much so that some of you\u00a0<em>right now<\/em> are probably suffering\u00a0<strong>Scanners<\/strong>-like head-rupturing effects. So, I&#8217;m talking to you tea-sipping snobs out there: what&#8217;s your tea ritual like? I&#8217;m looking for anything and everything I would require to join the Ancient Order of The Pristine Tea Leaf &#8212; where do you get your tea? How do you brew it? Is there a temperature thing? A technique?<\/p>\n<p>School me, tea nerds.\u00a0<em>School me<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reported earlier that I have officially gone Full Coffee Snob, and I am now blissfully in love with my Chemex and my Tonx Coffee subscription. But &#8212; if I am a burgeoning cellist or museum curator in the coffee department&#8230; Well, in the\u00a0tea department I&#8217;m basically a garbageman. I have no technique when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-5Ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22090"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22096,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090\/revisions\/22096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}