{"id":189,"date":"2010-11-10T11:41:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teageek.org\/?p=189"},"modified":"2010-11-10T11:41:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:41:29","slug":"xue-ya-ballad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/2010\/11\/10\/xue-ya-ballad\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea of the Week &#8211; Xue Ya Ballad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Name: <a title=\"Adagio Teas - Cherry Green\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adagio.com\/green\/cherry_green.html\" target=\"_blank\"><a title=\"Adagio Teas - Xue Ya Ballad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adagio.com\/green\/xue_ya_ballad.html\" target=\"_blank\">Xue Ya Ballad<\/a><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Type:\u00a0 Green<\/p>\n<p>Region:\u00a0 Keemun, China<\/p>\n<p>Bought At:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adagio.com\/\">Adagio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Price:\u00a0 $2 for a ten cup sample<\/p>\n<p>First Impressions: Gentle Grassy Smell, looks similar to a white monkey leaf but smaller<\/p>\n<p>Review:<\/p>\n<p>My first unflavored green in a while, Xue Ya Ballad was just okay.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t as light as I was expecting, and reminded me more of a gunpowder green than a white monkey green.\u00a0 Not really bad it lacked the smokiness that I like in darker greens.\u00a0 It had a hint of nutiness, but also just a twinge of bitterness in the end.\u00a0 It&#8217;s possible that I over steeped it, and will try it again, but all in all a little disapointing.\u00a0 Given a name with the grandiose of &#8220;Xue Ya Ballad&#8221; I was expecting a little more.<\/p>\n<p>My Rating: 2 \/ 5<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a title=\"www.brentswisher.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brentswisher.com\/\">brent<br \/>\n<\/a><em>(Teageek.org Founder)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Xue Ya Ballad Type:\u00a0 Green Region:\u00a0 Keemun, China Bought At:\u00a0 Adagio.com Price:\u00a0 $2 for a ten cup sample First Impressions: Gentle Grassy Smell, looks similar to a white monkey leaf but smaller Review: My first unflavored green in a while, Xue Ya Ballad was just okay.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t as light as I was expecting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,41,48],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green","tag-review","tag-tea","tag-totw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakonf-33","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}