{"id":377,"date":"2011-10-13T04:18:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=377"},"modified":"2011-10-13T04:18:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:18:17","slug":"coffee-free-for-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Coffee free&#8230;for this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/CoffeeWithHeart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-378\" title=\"CoffeeWithHeart\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/CoffeeWithHeart-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/CoffeeWithHeart-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/CoffeeWithHeart.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This has always been the hardest week for me\u2014the week where I give up coffee. In fact, I&#8217;ve never gone more than a couple days. But this year not drinking coffee has been very useful.<\/p>\n<p>My mornings do not have that driven quality. I usually feel like I can&#8217;t do anything &#8217;til I&#8217;ve had coffee. But now, the morning unfolds without that imperative. Most mornings, I&#8217;ve had a cup of tea, but I don&#8217;t get that jolt. So this practice has made coffee a preference, not a demand. And I feel a little less addicted.<\/p>\n<p>I also used to have a cup of coffee every afternoon\u2014I thought it kept me alert. But I had no problem staying alert without it, and even went out and stayed out late a couple nights without coffee.<\/p>\n<p>I head into sesshin tomorrow. It&#8217;s lost that far away glow; I&#8217;d really rather stay home. But I&#8217;m committed. And hoping that the coffee table coordinator brews fresh coffee on Saturday morning!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has always been the hardest week for me\u2014the week where I give up coffee. In fact, I&#8217;ve never gone more than a couple days. But this year not drinking coffee has been very useful. My mornings do not have that driven quality. I usually feel like I can&#8217;t do anything &#8217;til I&#8217;ve had coffee. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice-period"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}