{"id":6498,"date":"2012-12-29T01:42:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=6498"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:51:07","slug":"a-cold-winters-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=6498","title":{"rendered":"On a Cold Winter&#8217;s Morning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two things I cannot do without to begin the day right; a hearty breakfast and rejuvenating tea.\u00a0\u00a0 I am not much of a morning person but when I am fortunate enough to fit these things early into the day, it really doesn&#8217;t matter.\u00a0 My nutritionist once said, a daily balanced diet should also look like an inverted triangle with breakfast being a bigger meal while dinner, a smaller one.\u00a0 He was right.<\/p>\n<p>I took a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada this summer to attend my first Star Trek Convention (amazing!)\u00a0 The hotel we stayed at served one of the most delicious teas I ever tasted; it was Organic Chamomile Blossoms by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tealeaves.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tea Leaves<\/a>.\u00a0 With or without a sweetener, it&#8217;s superb!\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great anytime drink with an added plus that chamomile has natural healing properties and is caffeine free.\u00a0 I also love to end my day with a mug of it with a few pebbles of amber tea sugar thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>So tea enthusiasts, add this delectable tea to your tea chest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Makes a great gift&#8230;\u00a0 I recently gave a few packets (tied with thick organza ribbon) and tins away as Christmas treats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Photocredit:<\/strong> Tea Leaves<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6498 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?attachment_id=6499'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tea-leaves-chamomile-flowers-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?attachment_id=6500'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tea-leaves-organic-chamomile-blossoms-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two things I cannot do without to begin the day right; a hearty breakfast and rejuvenating tea.\u00a0\u00a0 I am not much of a morning person but when I am fortunate enough to fit these things early into the day, it really doesn&#8217;t matter.\u00a0 My nutritionist once said, a daily balanced diet should also &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[1791,1790,2088,1789],"class_list":["post-6498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea","tag-breakfast","tag-organic-chamomile","tag-tea","tag-tea-leaves"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions\/6502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}