{"id":205,"date":"2003-04-29T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2003-04-29T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=205"},"modified":"2003-04-29T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2003-04-29T09:00:30","slug":"tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/04\/29\/tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent some time educating myself about tea. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liptont.com\/\">Lipton<\/a>, while having a pretty ugly website, published some interesting information about tea. Apparently, the wooden box with all sorts of tea bags in it (like they show to you in the restaraunt) is called a &#8220;tea chest&#8221;. Prices go from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stashtea.com\/products\/Stash+8+Cell+Empty+Tea+Chest.aspx\">$30 USD<\/a>, through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemoontea.com\/storefront\/products\/taylors\/Chest-8.htm\">$80 USD<\/a>, and up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisdixonstudios.com\/ajdgallery\/pages\/bombay_tea_jewlery_chest.htm\">$395 USD<\/a>. Accidentally, I&#8217;ve discovered, that there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/fonts\/ef\/tea-chest-stencil\/\">Tea Chest Stencil font family<\/a> even. Not all boxes with tea are for tea bags though &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/gourmetleafteas.com\/exotic-wood-jewelry-case.html\">some<\/a> are designed for a proper tea. Some are made from <a href=\"http:\/\/countrycoffee.com\/bamboo_box.htm\">Bamboo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and I haven&#8217;t yet even started to talk about tea itself. I think I&#8217;ll pass this time.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent some time educating myself about tea. Lipton, while having a pretty ugly website, published some interesting information about tea. Apparently, the wooden box with all sorts of tea bags in it (like they show to you in the restaraunt) is called a &#8220;tea chest&#8221;. Prices go from $30 USD, through $80 USD, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/04\/29\/tea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29165,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/18\/a-cup-of-tea\/","url_meta":{"origin":205,"position":0},"title":"A cup of tea","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 18, 2018","format":"image","excerpt":"A cup of tea","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Instagram&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Instagram","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/photography\/instagram\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/a-cup-of-tea.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/a-cup-of-tea.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/a-cup-of-tea.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/a-cup-of-tea.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/a-cup-of-tea.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8121,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/27\/on-tea\/","url_meta":{"origin":205,"position":1},"title":"On tea","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I am not a great fan of tea. 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