{"id":1357,"date":"2009-01-02T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T01:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2009-08-08T19:29:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T02:29:17","slug":"cafe-au-lait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/02\/cafe-au-lait\/","title":{"rendered":"Cafe au Lait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cafe au Lait by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/3161741666\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3117\/3161741666_d7896c32a8_m.jpg\" alt=\"Cafe au Lait\" width=\"240\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>There are not many things I like more than finding the perfect cafe\/bakery in an unknown town. I flatter myself that I have a sense for finding exactly the right place, that I have some kind of carbohydrate and caffeine homing beacon that will direct me, without fail, to the right cup of coffee and the perfect treat to go with it.<\/p>\n<p>So when, at the counter in Brassica, a darned cute cafe and restaurant in Port Townsend&#8217;s uptown district, the woman in front of us turned around to reveal a giant cafe au lait served in a bowl, I felt rightfully smug. Plus, there was the &#8220;Oh my god, they have rum-kugeln!&#8221; discussion at the pastry case.<\/p>\n<p>We earned our treats by walking to the water in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parks.wa.gov\/parkpage.asp?selectedpark=Old+Fort+Townsend\">Old Fort Townsend State Park<\/a> and then by exercising our eyes while watching a submarine arrive from the lighthouse point at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parks.wa.gov\/fortworden\/\">Fort Worden<\/a>. We wandered in and out of the antique and &#8220;gift&#8221; shops, watched the birds watch the ferry, and generally squandered the day doing nothing of consequence.<\/p>\n<p>It snowed last night, the parking lot was covered with what looked like tiny styrofoam balls released from the inside of a bean bag chair in the sky. They were dry like dust, we blew them off the windsheild wipers and they flew away. The roads were icy and it was very cold, but the sky was bright blue. Every now and then we could see the Olympics, sharp against the sky and covered in new snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are not many things I like more than finding the perfect cafe\/bakery in an unknown town. I flatter myself that I have a sense for finding exactly the right place, that I have some kind of carbohydrate and caffeine homing beacon that will direct me, without fail, to the right cup of coffee and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Cafe au Lait\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/02\/cafe-au-lait\/#more-1357\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cafe au Lait\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","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\/1357","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}