{"id":23234,"date":"2012-07-16T15:25:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/laphamsquarterly-theatlantic-coffee\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:49:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:49:10","slug":"laphamsquarterly-theatlantic-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/laphamsquarterly-theatlantic-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23234 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/laphamsquarterly-theatlantic-coffee\/attachment\/23235\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m79bdhhpm41qcokc4o1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laphamsquarterly.tumblr.com\/post\/27331159006\/theatlantic-coffee-preventing-scurvy-since\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">laphamsquarterly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theatlantic.tumblr.com\/post\/27330802374\/coffee-preventing-scurvy-since-1650-in-1650\">theatlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/07\/coffee-preventing-scurvy-since-1650\/259853\/\">Coffee: Preventing Scurvy Since 1650<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In 1650, St. Michael\u2019s Alley, London\u2019s first coffee shop, placed an ad in a newspaper. That ad \u2014 archived in the British Museum, and Internet-ed by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vintage-ads.livejournal.com\/3607660.html\">Vintage Ads LiveJournal<\/a> \u2014 extolled the many Vertues of the newly discovered beverage. Which \u201cgroweth upon little Trees, only in the Deserts of Arabia,\u201d and which is \u2014 despite and ostensibly because of its Vertues \u2014 \u201ca simple innocent thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s amazing about the ad \u2014 besides, obviously, its crazy claim that coffee can prevent\u00a0<em>Mif-carryings in Child-bearing Women<\/em> \u2014 is how flagrantly its copyrighters flung the Vertues they extol. Per these 17th-century Mad Men, coffee could be used to aid and\/or prevent: indigestion, headaches, lethargy, drowsiness, arthritis, sore eyes, cough, consumption, \u201cspleen,\u201d dropsy, gout, scurvy, and \u2014 my personal favorite \u2014 hypochondria.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/07\/coffee-preventing-scurvy-since-1650\/259853\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/strong> <em>[Image: British Museum]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We at LQ endorse not getting scurvy, but encourage you to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/roundtable\/roundtable\/the-pleasures-and-pains-of-coffee.php\">Balzac on the dangers of excess caffeine.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>laphamsquarterly: theatlantic: Coffee: Preventing Scurvy Since 1650 In 1650, St. Michael\u2019s Alley, London\u2019s first coffee shop, placed an ad in a newspaper. That ad \u2014 archived in the British Museum, and Internet-ed by the\u00a0Vintage Ads LiveJournal \u2014 extolled the many Vertues of the newly discovered beverage. Which \u201cgroweth upon little Trees, only in the Deserts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-62K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23236,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23234\/revisions\/23236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}