{"id":3748,"date":"2014-05-21T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2017-05-13T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T15:23:09","slug":"the-philosophy-of-a-barista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/?p=3748","title":{"rendered":"The Oprah of Scruff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.highstrungloner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/still_ill-001-lg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3749 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #959595;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.highstrungloner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/still_ill-001-sm.jpg?resize=400%2C2016\" alt=\"Barista philosophy\" width=\"400\" height=\"2016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.highstrungloner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/still_ill-001-sm.jpg?w=400 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.highstrungloner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/still_ill-001-sm.jpg?resize=203%2C1024 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s <strong>simply\u00a0<em>adorable<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0when\u00a0the<strong>\u00a0Smiths fan <\/strong>who<strong> serves me coffee<\/strong>\u00a0shares<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>his\u00a0<strong>profound\u00a0ideas<\/strong> about how to\u00a0<strong>make myself a better person.<\/strong> In my opinion, he might want to <strong>try a little<\/strong> of his <strong>own advice,<\/strong> beginning with <strong>#4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Straight Edge on the Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Straight_edge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Straight Edge<\/a>.<\/strong> Please. <strong>The 80s<\/strong> called\u2026they want their <strong>pseudo-populist,\u00a0judgmental punks<\/strong> back. (Are straight edge punks supposed to <strong>drink coffee?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love it when people who <strong>already have a life partner<\/strong>\u00a0and\/or\u00a0<strong>regular sex-partner<\/strong>\u00a0think <strong>Scruff<\/strong>-like apps should evolve into \u00a0<strong>networking tools<\/strong>. Please. If you\u00a0want a gay networking app, <strong>fucking start one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also &#034;<strong>peak<\/strong> your interest.&#034; <strong>Ugh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can click on <strong>still_ill<\/strong>\u00a0(and you\u2019ll probably have to <strong>click again<\/strong>) for a <strong>larger version<\/strong> of this <strong>pretentious\u00a0<\/strong><strong>horseshit<\/strong><em><strong>,<\/strong><\/em> if you care, which I\u2019m sure <strong>you don\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it\u2019s simply\u00a0adorable\u00a0when\u00a0the\u00a0Smiths fan who serves me coffee\u00a0shares\u00a0his\u00a0profound\u00a0ideas about how to\u00a0make myself a better person. In my opinion, he might want to try a little of his own advice, beginning with #4. Straight Edge. Please. The 80s called\u2026they want their pseudo-populist,\u00a0judgmental punks back. (Are straight edge punks supposed to drink coffee?) I love it [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[429,297,17,9,50,26],"tags":[333,280,489,499,336,332,275,331],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruising","category-donts","category-gay","category-music","category-online","category-philly","tag-bike-stop","tag-cruising","tag-gay","tag-online","tag-oprah","tag-punks","tag-scruff","tag-straight-edge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ccTA-Ys","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12253,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/12253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}