{"id":24058,"date":"2012-03-21T14:33:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/coffeehouses-brought-people-and-ideas-together\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:33:03","slug":"coffeehouses-brought-people-and-ideas-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/coffeehouses-brought-people-and-ideas-together\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Coffeehouses brought people and ideas together; they inspired brilliant ideas and discoveries that would make Britain the envy of the world. The first stocks and shares were traded in Jonathan\u2019s coffeehouse by the Royal Exchange (now a private members\u2019 club); merchants, ship-captains, cartographers, and stockbrokers coalesced into Britain\u2019s insurance industry at Lloyd\u2019s on Lombard Street (now a Sainsbury\u2019s); and the coffeehouses surrounding the Royal Society galvanized scientific breakthroughs. Isaac Newton once dissected a dolphin on the table of the Grecian Coffeehouse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/destinations\/europe\/uk\/london\/9153317\/London-cafes-the-surprising-history-of-Londons-lost-coffeehouses.html\">surprising history<\/a> of London\u2019s lost coffeehouses.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/02171\/coffee1668_2171668b.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See Steven Johnson\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/23\/steven-johnson-where-good-ideas-come-from\/\">Where Good Ideas Come From<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>for a fascinating deeper look at the crucial role coffeehouses played in the history of innovation.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffeehouses brought people and ideas together; they inspired brilliant ideas and discoveries that would make Britain the envy of the world. The first stocks and shares were traded in Jonathan\u2019s coffeehouse by the Royal Exchange (now a private members\u2019 club); merchants, ship-captains, cartographers, and stockbrokers coalesced into Britain\u2019s insurance industry at Lloyd\u2019s on Lombard Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6g2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24058","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=24058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}