{"id":9721,"date":"2019-09-28T21:54:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T01:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2019-09-29T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:55:15","slug":"zero-coffee-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=9721","title":{"rendered":"Zero Coffee &#8211; Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3980\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_1373.jpg\" alt=\"caff-o-meter\" class=\"wp-image-9702\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caff-O-Meter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was going to title this post &#8220;Zero Caffeine &#8211; Day 3.&#8221;  But then I saw the Caff-O-Meter on the box of decaffeinated green tea.  <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=9703\">Day 1<\/a>, I had a cup of regular green tea.  <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=9712\">Day 2<\/a>, I popped 2 pills loaded with caffeine.  Today, I thought I successfully had zero caffeine.  Wrong. Decaf has really 1 &#8211; 8 mg of caffeine.  Still no coffee.  But I did have a tiny bit of caffeine.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing.  A cup of coffee has 100 &#8211; 120 mg of caffeine.  I typical would have at least 2 and often 3 cups of coffee per day.  Plus, I&#8217;d often have other caffeinated drinks:  Diet Coke, green tea, 4th cup of coffee.  So I&#8217;ve gone from 400 or 500 mg per day to 8 mg.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too soon to say if I see any difference in my physical tension or my emotional stress level.  I need to give this experiment a sufficient amount of time.  I&#8217;m thinking 3 months.  That means I can have coffee on Christmas day.  Oh, Santa!  I promise to be a good boy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to title this post &#8220;Zero Caffeine &#8211; Day 3.&#8221; But then I saw the Caff-O-Meter on the box of decaffeinated green tea. Day 1, I had a cup of regular green tea. Day 2, I popped 2 pills loaded with caffeine. Today, I thought I successfully had zero caffeine. Wrong. Decaf has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=9721\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zero Coffee &#8211; Day 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9722,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions\/9722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}