{"id":2222,"date":"2008-01-28T09:35:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T09:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/28\/alternative-beverages\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T09:35:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T09:35:41","slug":"alternative-beverages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/28\/alternative-beverages\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Beverages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t drink coffee, and never have, but I used to drink a lot of tea. Unfortunately, I suspect that 6-8 cups of Earl Grey a day may have played a role in triggering the Great Stomach Unpleasantness a couple of years ago. Certainly, hot, acidic liquids with caffeine are on the List of things not recommended for heartburn sufferers.<\/p>\n<p>I miss it, though, particularly because our science building is old, and the air-handling system leaves much to be desired (if you&#8217;re rich, and would like a new physics building named after you, email me&#8230;). I miss having a nice, hot cup of tea to drink, or even just to hold in order to get some warmth back into my fingers in the winter when it&#8217;s 50 degrees in my office.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the only hot beverages I know of are tea, coffee, and hot chocolate, all of which are ruled out for stomach reasons. I suppose I could just sip hot water, but that&#8217;s kind of pathetic. I would prefer something with, you know, flavor.<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t drink coffee, and never have, but I used to drink a lot of tea. Unfortunately, I suspect that 6-8 cups of Earl Grey a day may have played a role in triggering the Great Stomach Unpleasantness a couple of years ago. Certainly, hot, acidic liquids with caffeine are on the List of things&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/28\/alternative-beverages\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alternative Beverages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}