{"id":121,"date":"2005-07-11T19:47:24","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T01:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=121"},"modified":"2005-07-11T19:47:24","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T01:47:24","slug":"dismounting-from-the-brown-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/11\/dismounting-from-the-brown-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Dismounting from the Brown Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I've decided it's high time to ramp down my coffee\/caffeine habit until I've quit completely.  It's something I decided to start doing in waves over the last couple years because my coffee habit usually gets out of control, I need to drink more and more to get the same perceived mental stimulation, and I start to feel discomfort\/health side effects as a result of all that coffee.   Anyway, the worst side effects of this ramping down period are caffeine headaches that I get mid-day.  I tempered my headache today with a Coke at lunch.  Already I'm starting to feel better overall though.  Hopefully by end of week I'll be completely off the Brown Horse (not to be confused with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heroin\">white horse<\/a>!) and maybe by the fall\/winter I'll kick the habit off again with a cup every day or three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s high time to ramp down my coffee\/caffeine habit until I&#8217;ve quit completely. It&#8217;s something I decided to start doing in waves over the last couple years because my coffee habit usually gets out of control, I need to drink more and more to get the same perceived mental stimulation, and I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,70],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-caffeine","tag-coffee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}