{"id":7456,"date":"2003-12-10T13:41:59","date_gmt":"2003-12-10T18:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/12\/10\/pick-up-your-coffee-daily-and-follow-me\/"},"modified":"2003-12-10T13:41:59","modified_gmt":"2003-12-10T18:41:59","slug":"pick-up-your-coffee-daily-and-follow-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/12\/pick-up-your-coffee-daily-and-follow-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick up your coffee daily and follow me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">OAKLAND &#8212; A divine blend is brewing in East Oakland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The aroma of gourmet coffee comes from an unlikely locale, near Havenscourt and Bancroft avenues. The newly opened coffee shop has all the usual java offerings plus a little more &#8212; piped-in gospel music and a shot of community self-help. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;Starbucks is not going to come to the &#8216;hood,&#8221; said the Rev. Kevin Barnes, pastor at West Oakland&#8217;s Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church. &#8220;People want this type of coffee around here and they are not going to get it on the way to work at a gas station or a fast food place.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The combination of espresso and religion can be found at Heavenly Grounds, which opened this week in a storefront formerly occupied by a barbershop.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandtribune.com\/Stories\/0,1413,82~1865~1821124,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">What would be cool would be a Catholic Coffee house where you could sit down and have a nice cup a Joseph.  After all cappuccino was named after the Capuchin Franciscans.  What could be better than confession and cappuccino.  In confession our dark black sins get turned white as snow.  In cappuccino a dark black coffee gets turned white as snow.  Even more appropriate the average Catholic doesn&#8217;t know beans about the faith so we could start Coffee Cathechetics modeled after the program &#8220;theology on tap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">And of course the sign on the wall would say &#8220;Brew unto others as you would want others to brew unto you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND &#8212; A divine blend is brewing in East Oakland. The aroma of gourmet coffee comes from an unlikely locale, near Havenscourt and Bancroft avenues. The newly opened coffee shop&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}