{"id":954,"date":"2006-03-15T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=954"},"modified":"2006-03-15T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T17:53:29","slug":"coffee-tea-and-caffeine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2006\/03\/coffee-tea-and-caffeine\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee, Tea and Caffeine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m an American, Americans drink coffee. I started drinking it in my late teens when I was working 3rd shift in a store, it helped through some of those long nights.<\/p>\n

Throughout my adult life I’ve gone back and forth between being a coffee nut and giving it up completely. I enjoy an herbal tea from time to time, but have never been interested in caffeinated teas, until now.<\/p>\n

I’ve been examining my whole diet lately, and I love to have a hot drink in the morning. Lately it’s been a nice mixture of coffee (reg or decaf, depending on the day) and hot chocolate that our coffee machine spits out, I don’t need to add cream or sugar to it. It’s good, but it doesn’t make me feel the greatest when I drink that last gulp that’s particularly chocolatey. Perhaps this chocolate in the morning is not so good? I started exploring creamers and artificial sweeteners at work. We have Splenda and Equal at work and powdered creamers. I decided that Splenda is and OK sweetener that won’t kill me, but the powdered creamers are terrible. I looked at real creamers that I could buy at the store, but upon comparing “nutrition” facts I might as well stick to my chocolate coffee drink.<\/p>\n

I could just drink it black, but, ew.<\/p>\n

So on Monday morning I skipped the coffee, grabbed a Lipton tea bag and made myself a cup of tea. No sugar. No cream.<\/p>\n

You know what? It’s not bad! In fact, it’s something I could get quite used to. Yesterday morning I enjoyed a cup of Lipton tea as well and it was easier to drink. This morning I went for the Earl Grey that our coffee maker here at work can prepare in just a few seconds, it’s yum!<\/p>\n

And I feel good after a cup of tea, tea is healthy and light and refreshing in ways that a cup of coffee, cream and sweetener isn’t.<\/p>\n

Now I must go through some old posts made by to re-read the tea posts now that I am more interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m an American, Americans drink coffee. I started drinking it in my late teens when I was working 3rd shift in a store, it helped through some of those long nights. Throughout my adult life I’ve gone back and forth between being a coffee nut and giving it up completely. I enjoy an herbal tea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}