{"id":366,"date":"2008-10-21T05:59:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T11:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/?p=366"},"modified":"2008-10-21T05:59:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T11:59:24","slug":"going-into-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/going-into-rehab-366","title":{"rendered":"Going into rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After experiencing hideous caffeine withdrawal symptoms yet again yesterday, and after <em>finally<\/em> realizing that splitting headaches have been a Monday morning tradition for months and months, I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s time to get my addiction under control.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the remainder of this week and probably next week, too, I&#8217;m limiting myself to 4 cups of coffee a day.<\/p>\n<p>That sounds like a lot, and it really is, but after being accustomed to 5 to 10 cups a day during the week and 2 or 3 colas on Saturdays, cold turkey isn&#8217;t even on the menu. I&#8217;ve been through withdrawal many, many times before, and to borrow the punchline from a classic American feminine product spot, I haven&#8217;t got time for the pain. No, I had never heard of Carly Simon when that commercial started slowly but indelibly imprinting itself onto my brain.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so I&#8217;ve had my first cup today: Folger&#8217;s in a tea bag. It really wasn&#8217;t bad, especially considering it&#8217;s 3 years out of date. I don&#8217;t really remember buying it; it was just a nugget I scavenged during Operation Basement Storm, which began whole-heartedly yesterday. The other nuggets down there shan&#8217;t be discussed, especially in as semi-pubic a place as this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After experiencing hideous caffeine withdrawal symptoms yet again yesterday, and after finally realizing that splitting headaches have been a Monday morning tradition for months and months, I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s time to get my addiction under control. So, for the remainder of this week and probably next week, too, I&#8217;m limiting myself to 4 cups of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[24,26,29,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}