{"id":16148,"date":"2017-12-11T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/?p=16148"},"modified":"2017-12-11T11:37:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:37:57","slug":"weekly-coffee-date-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/weekly-coffee-date-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Coffee Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gingberbread_men.jpg\" alt=\"Gingerbread man cookies (photo by Migle on flickr) \" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gingberbread_men.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gingberbread_men-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gingberbread_men-624x936.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><em>photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/69668444@N03\/8288073694\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Migle on flickr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hi friends! I hope you&#8217;re enjoying the season! We just experienced the first snow of the season here in Massachusetts, so everyone seems to be freaking out a little. I really love snow, but check in with me again in February and I might say otherwise. Last week I put together that massive wedding post I promised you, and it will go up sometime this week! In the meantime, here are some interesting reads from around the internet:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really a wine connoisseur, so I&#8217;m never quite sure what to do in situations where waiters give you wine to sample. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/etiquette-tips-for-ordering-wine-a-sommelier-2017-12\" rel=\"no follow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the proper etiquette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an informative article from Vox explaining that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2017\/12\/7\/16587316\/bariatric-surgery-weight-loss-lap-band\" rel=\"no follow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bariatric surgery is the most effective weight loss tool according to science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wildfires aren&#8217;t really a problem in the places I have lived but what is going on in California right now is devastating. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/100000005592717\/californias-fires-by-the-numbers.html\" rel=\"no follow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a New York Times video that explains the extent of the damage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you are probably foodies or are close to someone who is. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/home\/8-gift-ideas-foodie-your-shopping-list-t58876\" rel=\"no follow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Today Show provided a list of good gifts for foodies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/12\/animals-rats-lions-weird-orcas\/\" rel=\"no follow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Geographic provided a list of the weirdest animal stories of 2017<\/a>. Some are cute, like a lioness nursing a leopard, some are weird, like a new species of purple frog, and some are gross, like a group of chimps killing and cannibalizing their leader.<\/p>\n<p>Starbucks is introducing another instagrammable drink\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/nation-now\/2017\/12\/08\/starbucks-introduces-christmas-tree-frappuccino-five-days-only\/933786001\/\" rel=\"no follow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the christmas tree frappuccino<\/a>. This one sounds pretty good- Peppermint Mocha Cr\u00e8me Frappuccino topped with matcha whipped cream styled to look like a Christmas tree, and decorated with caramel drizzle, candied cranberries and a strawberry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo by Migle on flickr Hi friends! I hope you&#8217;re enjoying the season! We just experienced the first snow of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[999],"tags":[1131],"class_list":["post-16148","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-weekly-coffee-date"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}