{"id":26466,"date":"2025-02-12T07:27:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26466"},"modified":"2025-02-12T07:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T07:31:19","slug":"food-drink-health-wellbeing-why-the-cult-o-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26466","title":{"rendered":"FOOD &amp; DRiNK\/HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Why The Cult o\u2019 Coffee?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"557\" height=\"456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4074-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4074-1.jpg 557w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4074-1-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I recall reading, on several occasions, people wondering why coffee has become a cult. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One example of this may have been a Viz piece (I can\u2019t recall exactly where it was) lampooning the idea that having a coffee was an \u2018activity\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been pleased to discover that it\u2019s not just me who wonders why this particular bean has risen to such cult status. Reading stuff along the lines of, \u2018is it \u2018cause coffee might be the legal wonder-drug of choice fueling capitalism?\u2019 type stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turning a stimulant that\u2019s long and often been sold as a natural pick me up or energy booster into a cult hobby is a (literal) capitalist wet dream. Worship what allows you to work harder\/longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coffee can of course be very nice. But I\u2019m amongst those who feel coffee worship has gone way too far. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recall reading, on several occasions, people wondering why coffee has become a cult. One example of this may have been a Viz piece (I can\u2019t recall exactly where it was) lampooning the idea that having a coffee was an \u2018activity\u2019. I\u2019ve been pleased to discover that it\u2019s not just me who wonders why this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26466\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FOOD &amp; DRiNK\/HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Why The Cult o\u2019 Coffee?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6SS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26466"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26467,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26466\/revisions\/26467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}