{"id":1062,"date":"2014-02-19T19:16:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2014-02-19T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T03:16:10","slug":"grind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Grind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coffee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1063\" alt=\"coffee\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coffee-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coffee-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coffee.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So, the other night we lost power.\u00a0 This is one reason we have a wood stove and luckily, it was fired up and blazing away.\u00a0 The heated concrete floor would cool off at a very, very slow pace &#8211; so no worries.<\/p>\n<p>The stove-top is gas &#8211; so dinner was not a problem.\u00a0 I actually had some candles and more amazingly, I knew where they were &#8211; so we stuffed them into some empty cans and lit them up.\u00a0 Oh, the ambiance was terrific.<\/p>\n<p>The outage went on and on.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 We broke out the lanterns and read books.\u00a0 It was all good.\u00a0 But, but, what about the morning&#8217;s coffee?\u00a0 Oh my &#8211; that could be serious.\u00a0 So, we thought about the French press coffee maker &#8211; had we seen it since the move?\u00a0 Cupboards opened and there it was!\u00a0 Most excellent.\u00a0 Now &#8211; how to\u00a0grind the coffee beans?<\/p>\n<p>Well, break out not one, but two, mortar and pestles.\u00a0 Yes indeed.\u00a0 One dates back to a garage sale in Bellingham in the early 80&#8217;s.\u00a0 The other is a new addition from an Island thrift store.\u00a0 And so, we ground the beans by candlelight on our fabulous concrete countertop.<\/p>\n<p>Life is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the other night we lost power.\u00a0 This is one reason we have a wood stove and luckily, it was fired up and blazing away.\u00a0 The heated concrete floor would cool off at a very, very slow pace &#8211; so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=1062\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}