{"id":211,"date":"2007-06-05T08:27:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T13:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2007-06-05T08:27:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T13:27:36","slug":"a-large-black-decaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"A large black decaf."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are staying at the Luxor.  The Luxor is a casino\/hotel that is shaped like a pyramid and is 30 stories tall.<\/p>\n<p>Most hotels have a coffee maker in the room as a courtesy to its guests.  The Luxor does not. They expect you to visit one of their 24 hour Star Bucks coffee shops and pay 3 something for a large cup of coffee.  And, I suspect that this is the case on the Vegas strip.<\/p>\n<p>OK.  I am not wild about the price but drinking decaf  does give me something to do while I am blogging.  So, I swallowed my wallet and went for their large.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, my request for a large black decaf took them by surprise.  They said, &#8221; You want a black decaf?&#8221;  I confirmed my request.  They then replied, &#8220;You want decaf?&#8221;  I said yes.  They said &#8220;You want it Black?&#8221;  And once again I said yes.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, they handed me a cup and said, &#8220;you wanted a black decaf?&#8221;  I said yes and took my cup to the check out.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it is hard to get a plain cup of coffee at Star Bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are staying at the Luxor. The Luxor is a casino\/hotel that is shaped like a pyramid and is 30 stories tall. Most hotels have a coffee maker in the room as a courtesy to its guests. The Luxor does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-3p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}