{"id":20823,"date":"2008-09-19T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/09\/19\/steamy-coffee-leaves-grounds-for-concern\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T10:00:01","slug":"steamy-coffee-leaves-grounds-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080919-01\/?p=20823","title":{"rendered":"Steamy coffee leaves grounds for concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m embarrassed for the bad pun,&sup1; but the subject is serious. Two stories appeared in the two major local newspapers on the same day.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003535398_coffeegirls22e.html\">     Coffee stands experiment with &#8220;sexpresso&#8221;<\/a>,     using scantily-glad baristas to lure customers.     (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betel_nut_beauty\">Taiwan has been doing this for ages<\/a>,     not without controversy.) <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/300667_stalker22ww.html\">     Man charged for stalking, threatening barista<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Sure, it may have been a coincidence, but I considered it a cautionary tale. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Follow-ups<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/topstories\/stories\/NW_082307WAB_monroe_latte_dress_TP.63094d58.html\"> Baristas resign en masse<\/a><\/p>\n<p> when the coffee stand owner decides to adopt a provocative dress code. <\/p>\n<p> Over a year later, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=94715155\"> NPR picks up the story<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Footnotes<\/b> <\/p>\n<p> &sup1;I&#8217;m not embarrassed for making a pun, just that it&#8217;s a bad pun. (Some people would argue that there&#8217;s no such thing as a good pun.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m embarrassed for the bad pun,&sup1; but the subject is serious. Two stories appeared in the two major local newspapers on the same day. Coffee stands experiment with &#8220;sexpresso&#8221;, using scantily-glad baristas to lure customers. (Taiwan has been doing this for ages, not without controversy.) Man charged for stalking, threatening barista. Sure, it may have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-20823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I&#8217;m embarrassed for the bad pun,&sup1; but the subject is serious. Two stories appeared in the two major local newspapers on the same day. Coffee stands experiment with &#8220;sexpresso&#8221;, using scantily-glad baristas to lure customers. (Taiwan has been doing this for ages, not without controversy.) Man charged for stalking, threatening barista. Sure, it may have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}