{"id":10166,"date":"2015-03-23T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2015-03-23T10:13:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T17:13:11","slug":"seattle-barista-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/seattle-barista-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Barista Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Machine by Pam, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/16287390393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7586\/16287390393_7ae188f9db_b.jpg\" alt=\"Machine\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent a Saturday afternoon auditing a class at the Seattle Barista Academy &#8212; I was there to write a story for an inflight magazine. Alexa, the coffee goddess who runs the course was a patient and entertaining instructor, I was charmed. I was also worried that I was going to freak out when faced with my home coffee situation because I Have Been Doing It All Wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Barista Alexa by Pam, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/16721227529\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7282\/16721227529_0424f40f7b_b.jpg\" alt=\"Barista Alexa\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out that while I enjoyed learning how to pull a perfect shot and how to control the variables that affect that shot, I&#8217;m likely to keep doing it wrong. The seals on my machine are going and the steamer has never really had enough pressure, but I like my house coffee.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alexa has an <a title=\"Alexa on Etsy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/people\/coffeepurse?ref=pr_profile\">Etsy shop<\/a> with coffee themed cuteness.<\/li>\n<li>These pics are mine, but the mag assigned Jeremy the photographer to the story, too.\u00a0 His work is <a title=\"JDL Multimedia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jdlmultimedia.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a Saturday afternoon auditing a class at the Seattle Barista Academy &#8212; I was there to write a story for an inflight magazine. Alexa, the coffee goddess who runs the course was a patient and entertaining instructor, I was charmed. I was also worried that I was going to freak out when faced &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Seattle Barista Academy\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/seattle-barista-academy\/#more-10166\" aria-label=\"Read more about Seattle Barista Academy\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10168,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions\/10168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}