{"id":74,"date":"2008-09-10T11:59:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T21:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=74"},"modified":"2010-01-13T21:47:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T07:47:42","slug":"why-to-grow-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/09\/why-to-grow-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Why to grow tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/33063\">blurb on the Onion<\/a> recently which made me laugh.\u00a0 I am putting a lot of work and passion into our tea field.\u00a0 Why are we, as highly educated members of a developed nation, so eager to do the sort of work which is relegated to peasants in poor parts of the world? I do hope that some day our tea makes the world a better place, in a small way.\u00a0 True, you can&#8217;t (really) eat tea.\u00a0 But good tea, the kind we hope to make, is more than about what the Onion blurb says, growing caffeine or antioxidants.\u00a0 The way i am beginning to see things, tea can be a holistic experience, the fulfillment it brings may be beyond scientific analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this blurb on the Onion recently which made me laugh.\u00a0 I am putting a lot of work and passion into our tea field.\u00a0 Why are we, as highly educated members of a developed nation, so eager to do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/09\/why-to-grow-tea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}