{"id":426,"date":"2009-08-15T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:47:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:47:17","slug":"a-coffee-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"A coffee story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/fall2008-BirdWoodcutCafecito.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 175px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/fall2008-BirdWoodcutCafecito.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369634313663201730\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I read the sweetest little book by Julia Alvarez yesterday evening&#8230; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cafecito-Story-Julia-Alvarez\/dp\/1931498547\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1250215606&amp;sr=1-1\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A Cafecito Story: A Story of Love, Coffee, Birds, and Hope<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>My coworker <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=481\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Linda, mi pana<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">, is from the Dominican Republic and has been trying to sell me on Julia Alvarez for months.  Mostly she writes something like historical fiction that spans the divide between her childhood in DR and her adult life here in the US.  I enjoy the poetic way she often writes and this little book suited my short attention span of late.<\/p>\n<p>It tells the story of one man&#8217;s love affair with a good cup of coffee and how the challenge of growing coffee under the shade of trees, where songbirds come to sing over the ripening coffee beans, ultimately inspires an organic shade-grown coffee company and a community.  <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafealtagracia.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Cafe Alta Gracia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> is the name of that company and their coffee is available for sale through the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vermontcoffeecompany.com\/Vermont_Coffee_Company\/vermont_organic_fair_trade_coffee.html\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Vermont Coffee Company<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone tried it or have a favorite to recommend?  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read the sweetest little book by Julia Alvarez yesterday evening&#8230; A Cafecito Story: A Story of Love, Coffee, Birds, and Hope. \ud83d\ude09 My coworker Linda, mi pana, is from the Dominican Republic and has been trying to sell me on Julia Alvarez for months. Mostly she writes something like historical fiction that spans the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=426\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A coffee story<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}