{"id":302,"date":"2012-01-11T19:53:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teageek.org\/?p=302"},"modified":"2012-01-11T19:53:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:53:42","slug":"a-new-year-a-new-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/2012\/01\/11\/a-new-year-a-new-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year, A New Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as this is my first post since August, you can probably guess that I missed the mark with my <a title=\"Tea Review Goals\" href=\"http:\/\/teageek.org\/2011\/01\/new-years-resolutions\/\" target=\"_blank\">teageek.org resolution<\/a> to blog about new teas and answering tea questions. Looking back,\u00a0 I missed most of my 2011 intentions for this site by a pretty wide margin. Despite that, I think 2011 was a pretty good year for me, tea-wise.<\/p>\n<p>I got to visit the Samovar Tea Lounge on a trip to San Francisco, and it was really awesome. Anyone in the San Francisco area should check it out. I love their tea and was totally geeked to get to visit them. I also started a new job, and while there were already some pretty solid tea drinkers here, I think I helped raise it&#8217;s popularity in the office a little.\u00a0 Actually, judging by my co-workers yelling at me about their &#8220;tea bills&#8221; I would say it went a little too well.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons I haven&#8217;t been posting is that it has become too much of a chore. Feeling guilty when I don&#8217;t feel like writing a post has made me never really want to post, which is ironically the opposite of what I was trying to accomplish with teageek.org. This year I am going to approach things a little differently. Rather then rapid fire reviews that I don&#8217;t really care about, I&#8217;m going to not set any goals, and just see where it goes. I want tea to be about taking a moment and enjoying life, not rushing frantically through it. I have plenty of goals and challenges planned for 2012, I don&#8217;t need to make enjoying tea one of them.<\/p>\n<p>So, sit back, brew some tea, and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>-brent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as this is my first post since August, you can probably guess that I missed the mark with my teageek.org resolution to blog about new teas and answering tea questions. Looking back,\u00a0 I missed most of my 2011 intentions for this site by a pretty wide margin. Despite that, I think 2011 was a [&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":[3],"tags":[10,11,20],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-10","tag-11","tag-enjoy-the-moment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakonf-4S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}