{"id":5304,"date":"2010-02-17T18:26:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:46:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:46:29","slug":"for-the-love-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2010\/02\/for-the-love-of-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"For The Love of Tea!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”<\/em><\/strong>
\n~Honor\u00e9 de Balzac<\/p>\n

My love affair with Atlas started just a few posts ago<\/a> and has blossomed into a chronic habit. I was more than happy to sit by my favourite window seat and people watch the Pearl Street pavement from The Cup, a coffee shop just a few doors down from Atlas. So Joseph, knowing I have a thing for good teas, had to nudge me a few times to give Atlas a try. Once he gave up nudging I realised I might forget, so I found myself here, trying out the frothy rooibos chai and sharing a giant table with a few friendly guys keen to expand the party.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if its the huge poster of Craigslist > Atlas Missed Connections posted up on the wall or not but this place has an unmissable sniffable air of being a singles meetup spot for young, often trendy 20- and 30-somethings who I am guessing must be web designers, graphic designers, writers and other types of freelancers who can waffle hours of the day away looking busy. Freelancing is a good life for sure, and even with the unreliable income, no health plan and occasional cash flow crises, I wouldn’t trade what I do now for any amount of money or luxuries. I have a credit card for such emergencies!<\/p>\n

Today as soon as I came in I started distractedly unpacking my laptop to secure a spot, and one of the owners, the one I got to know on my first day here, came round to my shared table and dropped off a tall frothy glass of Rooibos chai with a warm smile. Without realising what it meant, I don’t think, he was welcoming me to my home from home. Atlas is now officially my favourite work spot in Colorado. Once they are open till 11 I will be in heaven!<\/p>\n

Here’s some snaps of my favourite bits to give you a feel for the place:<\/p>\n

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\nThe wall of missed connections<\/p>\n

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\nRemember the guy writing on the wall?<\/a> This is the complete poem.<\/p>\n

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\nOne of my favourite pieces on the wall<\/p>\n

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\nA wall of fine teas from around the world for sale by the cup, pot or gram<\/p>\n

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\nMy absolute favourite piece of artwork on the wall
\nfor sale: $1500, acrylic on wood – JanetGuenther.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

More of her work:
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And finally, my view at night…
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Oh wait, there’s one more \ud83d\ude09 My favourite photo of the bunch!<\/p>\n

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\nJoseph pops in and hangs out on his break… while I pretend to work but pretty much spend the whole time compltely distractedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.” ~Honor\u00e9 de Balzac My love affair with Atlas started just a few posts ago and has blossomed into a chronic habit. I was more than happy to sit by my favourite window seat and people watch the Pearl Street pavement from The Cup, a coffee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,233,234,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-entrepeneurial-spirit","category-freelancing","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}