{"id":531,"date":"2007-09-19T23:19:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T04:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2007-09-24T09:46:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:46:19","slug":"best-way-to-spend-a-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"best way to spend a morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i confess.  i have a new obsession.  today was the third time (in less than a month!) that i visited the ma-cha teahouse.  i had a bunch of writing that i wanted to get done and i know that if i try to do it at home that i&#8217;ll spend all morning putzing around the house and suddenly it will be one o&#8217;clock and i&#8217;ll have nothing done.  so, i packed up my camera and laptop in my snazzy new laptop bag and headed out to ma-cha.  today i tried the hot tea for the first time and also visited the moroccan room for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" height=\"282\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.google.com\/carissaabc\/RvHx0Gysu9I\/AAAAAAAABwY\/Q6GG5rgUf6M\/IMGP4904.JPG?imgmax=720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i spent the first hour there tapping away on my computer, happily sipping tea and fully able to concentrate.  when i went for my second pot of tea, i discovered that my pastor (the one i&#8217;d first discovered ma-cha with) was studying downstairs!  we were the only two people in the place&#8211;what a bizarre coincidence!  along with the second pot of tea, i also got a small plate with three cookies (mmm&#8230;.. coconut macaroon, orange ricotta and a checkerboard cookie).  since i was taking a little break anyway, i thought i&#8217;d take a few pictures to show you some cute bits of the teahouse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" height=\"282\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.google.com\/carissaabc\/RvHx3Gysu-I\/AAAAAAAABwg\/lBEOREckSGI\/IMGP4908.JPG?imgmax=720\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"425\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.google.com\/carissaabc\/RvH0ImysvAI\/AAAAAAAABxI\/KlBToRV6PJ8\/IMGP4943.JPG?imgmax=720\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"423\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.google.com\/carissaabc\/RvH0KGysvBI\/AAAAAAAABxQ\/Kx06lKpOFJA\/IMGP4939.JPG?imgmax=720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>hmm&#8230; looks like i missed a few photos i wanted to get.  guess i&#8217;ll have to go back again soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i confess. i have a new obsession. today was the third time (in less than a month!) that i visited the ma-cha teahouse. i had a bunch of writing that i wanted to get done and i know that if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-reviews","category-stuff-that-sparks-the-glow-inside-my-soul","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}