{"id":38,"date":"2005-03-16T10:18:57","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T17:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2005-03-16T10:18:57","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T17:18:57","slug":"a-funny-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/16\/a-funny-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"A funny thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I visited the new nearby Starbucks for the second time this past weekend and had an entertaining exchange with the barista.&nbsp; It went a little something like this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Him:<\/strong> What can I get started for you today?<br \/><strong>Me:<\/strong> I&#8217;d like a grande hot chocolate, no whip, and a&#8230;<br \/><strong>Him:<\/strong> <em>(interrupting)<\/em> No whip?<br \/><strong>Me:<\/strong> No whip.<br \/><strong>Him:<\/strong> You mean, like, no whipped cream?<br \/><strong>Me:<\/strong> Right, no whipped cream.<br \/><strong>Him:<\/strong> Okay, so a grande hot chocolate, no whipped cream.&nbsp; That&#8217;ll be&#8230;<br \/><strong>Me:<\/strong><em> (interrupting)<\/em> I&#8217;d also like a grande vanilla steamer, free pour.<br \/><strong>Him:<\/strong> Vanilla steamer?<br \/><strong>Me:<\/strong> Yes, a vanilla steamed milk.<br \/><strong>Him:<\/strong> You mean like a latte?<br \/><strong>Me:<\/strong> No, a steamed milk with vanilla in it.<br \/><strong>Him:<\/strong> That&#8217;s a latte, that&#8217;s how we make lattes.<br \/><strong>Me:<\/strong> But I don&#8217;t want any coffee in it!&nbsp; Just&nbsp; steamed milk with vanilla flavoring.&nbsp; Free pour please.<br \/><strong>Him:<\/strong> Free pour?<br \/><em>(enter the manager lady who seems to better understand the intricacies of drink making)<\/em><br \/><strong>Her:<\/strong> <em>(to him)<\/em> Free pour.&nbsp; It means&#8230; nevermind. <em>(to me)<\/em> So you want extra foam, then?<br \/><strong>Me:<\/strong> Yes, please.<br \/><strong>Her:<\/strong> Okay, so a grande hot chocolate, no whip and a grande vanilla steamer, free pour.<br \/><strong>Me:<\/strong> <em>(with relief)<\/em> Yes, thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I visited the new nearby Starbucks for the second time this past weekend and had an entertaining exchange with the barista.&nbsp; It went a little something like this: Him: What can I get started for you today?Me: I&#8217;d like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/16\/a-funny-thing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}