{"id":1629,"date":"2017-02-23T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1629-simons-gift.html"},"modified":"2017-02-23T22:30:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T12:00:18","slug":"simons-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1629-simons-gift.html","title":{"rendered":"Simon&#8217;s Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2254 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1461-_MG_7616.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy good friend Simon likes coffee. I just did not realize how much he likes his coffee until last weekend when we visited him and his wife Emma in Canberra.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8220;Would you like a coffee?&#8221; he offered as we were welcomed in. What a great way to kick off the afternoon I thought as he led us to his little barista grotto.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere before me was a sight that just might make coffee lovers think they have died and gone to heaven.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe fully manual machine equipped with a myriad of gauges, controls and readouts was spotless and gleaming.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe calibrated grinder took pride of place along side.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNeatly laid out were tampers, handles and filter baskets for perfect extraction along with a diverse set of barista accessories.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe best equipment in the world does not count for much if you can&#8217;t get the best from it. The proof would be in this pouring.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAll my apprehension was swept away with my first sip of the wonderfully aromatic short black I was given.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThank you Simon for this culinary gift. Without a doubt this was the best shot of coffee I have ever had.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Simon&#8217;s Gift&#8217;, 1\/60s f\/2.8 ISO1000 200mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend Simon likes coffee. I just did not realize how much he likes his coffee until last weekend when we visited him and his wife Emma in Canberra. &#8220;Would you like a coffee?&#8221; he offered as we were welcomed in. What a great way to kick off the afternoon I thought as he &#8230; <a title=\"Simon&#8217;s Gift\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1629-simons-gift.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Simon&#8217;s Gift\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}