{"id":4762,"date":"2009-05-12T05:15:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2009-05-12T05:15:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T10:15:17","slug":"diagnosis-caffeine-deprivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4762","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosis: Caffeine Deprivation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presenting symptoms:<\/p>\n

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  1. Yesterday morning: I woke up and came downstairs.\u00a0 Before I started blogging, I made myself my usual “quick” “breakfast”; a slice of whole grain bread with margarine and honey.\u00a0 I grabbed a tub, sank the knife in, dabbed a schmear of margarine onto the bread (observing as I did so that the flourescent lights made the margarine seem washed out) and poured on a brief drizzle of honey.\u00a0 I ate the slice as I walked to my computer room.\u00a0 As I sat and started typing, I noticed that, while the flavor of the honey normally overpowers the margarine, it tasted a little bland <\/em>today.\u00a0 It took me a few seconds to notice that no, it wasn’t bland honey; it was aggressive butter.\u00a0 It took a few more minutes of typing, chewing and swallowing to notice that it was aggressive, indeed – but not butter at all.\u00a0 It was sour cream.\u00a0 I’d left a tub – the same sized tub as the margarine – sitting out the night before.\u00a0 While I did <\/em>notice the “margarine” seemed washed out in the light, I didn’t actually make the connection until two whole minutes after I ate the stuff.<\/li>\n
  2. So I grabbed my bike and went to the coffee shop on the corner.\u00a0 I ordered a large light roast.\u00a0 I walked to the credenza and poured in some half ‘n half.\u00a0 Then I grabbed two Splenda and ripped them open.\u00a0 And poured the Splenda into the trash.\u00a0 And stopped myself barely on the brink of throwing the wrappers into my coffee.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I made sure I had coffee made before I started blogging this morning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Presenting symptoms: Yesterday morning: I woke up and came downstairs.\u00a0 Before I started blogging, I made myself my usual “quick” “breakfast”; a slice of whole grain bread with margarine and honey.\u00a0 I grabbed a tub, sank the knife in, dabbed a schmear of margarine onto the bread (observing as I did so that the flourescent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}