{"id":16517,"date":"2018-01-05T18:29:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T23:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=16517"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:37","slug":"power-dark-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/power-dark-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Dark Roast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">I got up this cold, cold morning and found that while we still had water flowing, the internet was not. So I went over to my workshop intending to take a hair dryer to the router, melt the blockage, and get the electron flow moving again. But it turned out that there was nothing wrong with modem or router: our LAN is working perfectly, it\u2019s just that my laptop does not feel like being conversational this morning. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/0000h-Coffee-The-Force-Awakens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16518\" src=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/0709h-Coffee-The-Force-Awakens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>So I settled into my chair, set my mug of hot, black coffee in its place next to the laptop and began working on a local writing task.\u00a0 The scent of this invigorating elixir was, apparently, enough to change the laptop&#8217;s mind, for after a few moments of typing, it went \u201cbing!\u201d alerting me that new e-mail had arrived.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Coffee is great stuff, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up this cold, cold morning and found that while we still had water flowing, the internet was not. So I went over to my workshop intending to take a hair dryer to the router, melt the blockage, and get the electron flow moving again. But it turned out that there was nothing wrong &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/power-dark-coffee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Power of the Dark Roast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22,24],"class_list":["post-16517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-mountain-life","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21400,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517\/revisions\/21400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}