{"id":596,"date":"2008-08-14T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=596"},"modified":"2008-08-14T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T15:02:37","slug":"i-dont-drink-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/i-dont-drink-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t drink coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how you define &#8220;a morning person,&#8221; but I don&#8217;t consider myself one, even though I do tend to wake up earlier than my wife does. Maybe, by my definition of &#8220;morning person,&#8221; there are no morning people. I consider a morning person someone who not only <i>wakes up early<\/i> but also doesn&#8217;t feel groggy and doesn&#8217;t feel immediately like going back to bed again. <\/p>\n<p> So why do I wake up early? I like mornings. Lately, I&#8217;ve been going on morning runs in the park before work, and I like how quiet and beautiful the park is in the morning as the fog rolls over the grass and water. And on the weekends, I can&#8217;t sleep in too much, because I don&#8217;t want the whole day to just waste away, and I also don&#8217;t want my body getting used to that kind of sleep cycle on the weekends so that waking up on Monday for work is even more difficult than it usually is. <\/p>\n<p> Still, I don&#8217;t drink coffee. <\/p>\n<p> I know many people who <i>need<\/i> coffee to function in the morning. If they don&#8217;t have coffee, they are cranky, discombobulated, and inarticulate&mdash;sort of the way I am if I haven&#8217;t eaten in eight hours (give me three meals a day, please; thank you). I&#8217;d say there are three major reasons I don&#8217;t drink coffee: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While my high school friends were starting to drink coffee in order to feel more grown up, I didn&#8217;t really care to feel grown up. I wanted to be intellectually mature. I wanted to be respected. But I didn&#8217;t particularly want to get drunk, smoke cigarettes, drink coffee, have sex, get high, or have an early mid-life crisis. I wanted to enjoy my youth while I still had it. Of course, some people would say all the stuff I didn&#8217;t do as a teenager is enjoyment of youth. I&#8217;ll respectfully disagree.\n<li>I don&#8217;t really like taking drugs&mdash;caffeine, over-the-counter headache medicine, etc. I will take drugs if I have to (if I have a really bad headache or need antibiotics after surgery), but I try to avoid them if possible. I just like not to mess with my body if I don&#8217;t have to, and I also worry that my body could build up an immunity to certain drugs if I take them too often.\n<li>I guess the most important reason is I just don&#8217;t like the taste of coffee. The smell isn&#8217;t too bad (doesn&#8217;t turn me on or anything, but I can stand it). Coffee taste? Bleh.<\/ul>\n<p> Yup. I&#8217;m a freak. I don&#8217;t drink coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how you define &#8220;a morning person,&#8221; but I don&#8217;t consider myself one, even though I do tend to wake up earlier than my wife does. Maybe, by my definition of &#8220;morning person,&#8221; there are no morning people. I consider a morning person someone who not only wakes up early but also doesn&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/i-dont-drink-coffee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I don&#8217;t drink coffee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[381,379,380,377,378],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-addictions","tag-beverages","tag-caffeine","tag-coffee","tag-drinks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}