{"id":411,"date":"2009-09-07T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:10:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:10:35","slug":"the-first-sip-is-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"The first sip is the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/cupotea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/cupotea-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378850634526714642\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I learned to drink tea with my grandmother.  I like it now the same way as when I was a kid &#8211; mostly milk and plenty sweet.  Tea smells especially delicious, I think, if you&#8217;re used to drinking coffee.<\/p>\n<p>A cup of tea shared with grandma was a recipe for happiness, as I remember it.  All I need now is that first sip to be carried back to her small kitchen; the clink of spoon against saucer recalling my grandpa in the next room, the parlor, listening to a ballgame on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think my grandmother and I ever did anything especially memorable together, but I remember drinking tea and feeling very loved.  Her memory is a joy and one that usually surfaces as a surprise.  A cup of tea is the only way I know to will it.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned to drink tea with my grandmother. I like it now the same way as when I was a kid &#8211; mostly milk and plenty sweet. Tea smells especially delicious, I think, if you&#8217;re used to drinking coffee. A cup of tea shared with grandma was a recipe for happiness, as I remember it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=411\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The first sip is the best<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}