{"id":3877,"date":"2018-04-24T07:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:11:35","slug":"notes-non-corporate-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/notes-non-corporate-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes From Non-Corporate Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A copy of Jim Harrison&#8217;s <i>The Women Lit by Fireflies<\/i> found in the cafe library. I borrow it for a friend.<\/p>\n<p>I stash my books in the library&#8217;s handcrafted book case built by a deceased patron. My books rest between Danielle Steele and Clive Cussler.<\/p>\n<p>Another white cup, but no logo. I taste the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Stevie Ray Vaughn plays.<\/p>\n<p>No new products advertised.<\/p>\n<p>People are conversing. Someone in here is thinking of a good idea that might improve the world, I can just feel it. I can almost smell it.<\/p>\n<p>Across the street, decades ago, I began my life as a writer. It began in an old brick building paid for by a Robber Baron. No one is ever going to write that about the new digital Robber Barons. They are ten times more heinous than Mellon, Carnegie and Rockefeller and wear fitted t-shirts wile doing the robbing.<\/p>\n<p>I smell baked goods.<\/p>\n<p>A woman with purple hair meets a man with gray hair.<\/p>\n<p>People are talking about the sun.<\/p>\n<p>A huge man comes in wearing yellow suspenders to hold up his gut.<\/p>\n<p>Do I write differently while drinking coffee in a corporate atmosphere? Someone should conduct a study.<\/p>\n<p><i>(If you found this post enjoyable, thought provoking or enlightening, please consider supporting a writer at work by making a financial contribution to this blog or by purchasing an NSP book.) <\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--themify_builder_static--><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A copy of Jim Harrison&#8217;s The Women Lit by Fireflies found in the cafe library. I borrow it for a friend. I stash my books in the library&#8217;s handcrafted book case built by a deceased patron. My books rest between Danielle Steele and Clive Cussler. Another white cup, but no logo. I taste the difference. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[213,217],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","tag-coffee","tag-coffee-shop-writing","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9603,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/9603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}