{"id":22826,"date":"2017-01-04T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T02:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=22826"},"modified":"2017-01-04T21:14:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T02:14:30","slug":"%e3%80%8athe-aroma-of-coffee-and-prayer%e3%80%8b__-ernest-yau-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=22826","title":{"rendered":"\u300aThe Aroma of Coffee and Prayer\u300b__ Ernest Yau (65) \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Against the backdrop of an Orthodox Christian church built some 600 years ago, I smelled the aroma and tasted the thick, bold and dark Ethiopian coffee, mesmerized by the ceremonial regalia, drifting in the swirl of frankincense smoke and soaking in a tradition dated back many centuries. I am in the land where coffee was birthed as attested by Kaffa, a southern province, so called for its namesake.<\/div>\n<div>Having traveled north and south of the country, tomorrow\u00a0I will begin my service at a Mother Teresa&#8217;s home for the poor in Addis Ababa with Brothers of Missionaries of Charity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wykontario.org\/index.php\/featured-articles\/2335-the-aroma-of-coffee-and-prayer-ernest-yau-65\">Continue<\/a> reading<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the backdrop of an Orthodox Christian church built some 600 years ago, I smelled the aroma and tasted the thick, bold and dark Ethiopian coffee, mesmerized by the ceremonial regalia, drifting in the swirl of frankincense smoke and soaking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=22826\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[398],"class_list":["post-22826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-ernest-yau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22827,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22826\/revisions\/22827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}