{"id":109,"date":"2004-04-05T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/05\/im-just-full-of-things-to-share-today\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T10:54:13","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T18:54:13","slug":"im-just-full-of-things-to-share-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/05\/im-just-full-of-things-to-share-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m just full of things to share today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been jealous of smokers and their smoke breaks. It&#8217;s such a good idea to take little 5- or 10-minute breaks during the day to step outside. But I&#8217;m not a smoker, and it&#8217;s weird to do so without a cigarette, or anything to give you a reason to be there.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSo I came up with the <strong>tea break<\/strong>. I now try to do this every non-rainy afternoon between about 2-3pm. I have a pot of tea every day (at least one), so sometime when I can get a minute, I&#8217;ll pour a mug and slip up to the third-floor balcony that my building has.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSitting out there with a steaming mug of tea adds what I felt was missing. I have something I can hold, inhale, consume. My time out there is now delineated by how long it takes to drink the mug. I don&#8217;t have to look at a watch &#8211; I just go back in when I&#8217;m done. And I can enjoy the fresh air, and sunshine when the sun&#8217;s out.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just heading to a tea break now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been jealous of smokers and their smoke breaks. It&#8217;s such a good idea to take little 5- or 10-minute breaks during the day to step outside. But I&#8217;m not a smoker, and it&#8217;s weird to do so without a cigarette, or anything to give you a reason to be there. &nbsp; So I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}