{"id":32736,"date":"2022-10-03T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T17:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=32736"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:12:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:12:33","slug":"bad-coffee-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/10\/03\/bad-coffee-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad coffee redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<p>Sitting at a coffee chop&#8230; think I&#8217;ll leave that typo. A lot of typos get through here on account of no spell check and the small screen. I often make a quick pass at fixing them later, at home.<\/p>\n<p>Cold got here quickly. Had to find a jacket this am.<\/p>\n<p>Someone called to complain about an enormously huge wifi tower going in outside Cooper Union.. I didn&#8217;t think they were putting those monstrosities in Manhattan, at least not in non-residential areas. Thought those were all going out to the boonies, for appearances of equality and equity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yugh, had to leave that coffee spot. They were blasting horrible covers of Beatles songs. I mean it sounded like the people singing were being murdered. It reminded me of a time a radio station playing in a restaurant had a thing where someone called in and won a bunch of money, or tickets to a concert, or something. She was so happy that it sounded like she was being tortured.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how bad the music was at this place, the BlueSpoon on William Street. I don&#8217;t like their coffee, either, but it&#8217;s stronger than others I&#8217;ve found around. Today was my triumphant claim of the free cup you get after buying 10. It&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t seem free to spend $38 on 10 coffees and only get one. The profit markup on coffee must be in the 4-figure range, and places just keep jacking up their prices. Even Jubilee, the once-favored place with its $1.25 large coffee got on the greed game, jacking up the price to 2 fucking dollars. I&#8217;m almost completely done with that place now.<\/p>\n<p>This is truly relevant, is it not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting at a coffee chop&#8230; think I&#8217;ll leave that typo. A lot of typos get through here on account of no spell check and the small screen. I often make a quick pass at fixing them later, at home. Cold got here quickly. Had to find a jacket this am. Someone called to complain about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8w0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32800,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736\/revisions\/32800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}