{"id":1948,"date":"2010-03-26T23:14:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T06:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2010-03-26T23:14:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T06:14:14","slug":"getting-it-up-with-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/03\/26\/getting-it-up-with-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting it up with coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did I miss this till now?<\/p>\n<p>I had a meeting this afternoon <a href=\"http:\/\/groundzeroprint.com\/elisa.html\">with<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottisharchitecture.com\/article\/view\/Gathering+Space+winner+announced\">Elisa<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-architect.co.uk\/venice_biennale_2008.htm\">Yon<\/a> (the woman who brought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pecha-kucha.org\/night\/victoria\/1\">Pecha Kucha to Victoria<\/a>) and Aleya Ryan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anonymousadvertising.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=category&amp;layout=blog&amp;id=34&amp;Itemid=53\">Anonymous<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anonymousadvertising.com\/\">Advertising<\/a> at Victoria BC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/place?cid=13395888461199894569&amp;q=-&amp;ved=0CBEQtQU&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=dZatS-LBNZWKsQOB5pmSBQ\">Bean Around the World<\/a>. Because Elisa drew it to my attention, I finally noticed the best t-shirt ever.<\/p>\n<p>The front shows a small rendering of the Johnson Street Bridge, surrounded by the words &#8220;Bean Around the World Victoria&#8221; &#8211; the name of the wonderful cafe on Fisgard Street in Chinatown.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 10px solid white\" title=\"Bean Around the World's Johnson Street Bridge t-shirt\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_Rg-tSGYurlI\/S62VohusBAI\/AAAAAAAAA3U\/07FlxaHC6VU\/s512\/CIMG0606.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the back, a schematized rendering of Victoria BC&#8217;s fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/johnsonstreetbridge.org\/\">Johnson Street Bridge<\/a>, partially raised above the waters of Victoria&#8217;s Inner Harbour.<\/p>\n<p>Above the rendering, the words &#8220;Johnson Street Bridge&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And underneath?<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;&#8230;getting it up since 1922&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5>(Hell, yeah!)<\/h5>\n<p>Too bad our city council and staff don&#8217;t bother to keep it up anymore. (I guess they forgot that if you don&#8217;t use it, &#8230;you lose it.)<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, <strong>Bean Around the World<\/strong>, for a great inspirational t-shirt. Whether you&#8217;re visiting Victoria or live here, don&#8217;t miss the Bean&#8217;s excellent coffees, comestibles, and ambiance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria BC&#8217;s Bean Around the World Cafe knows the value of getting it up (the Johnson Street Bridge, that is). Too bad city council and staff don&#8217;t keep it up anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6171,1418],"tags":[15079,3151],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-johnson-street-bridge","category-victoria","tag-bean_around_the_world","tag-coffee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}