{"id":78,"date":"2007-11-16T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/11\/16\/fridays-primate-party-8\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T14:55:00","slug":"fridays-primate-party-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/11\/16\/fridays-primate-party-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s Primate Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/Rz2ySFoZRJI\/AAAAAAAAAFY\/AsR0wjc6KSE\/s1600-h\/milk04_260x180.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/Rz2ySFoZRJI\/AAAAAAAAAFY\/AsR0wjc6KSE\/s200\/milk04_260x180.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><em><span>Dude, I am so totally wired right now<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">D&#8217;you<\/span> want some monkey spit with that latte?<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hey, it&#8217;s better than cat poo.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yup, following on from the success of gourmet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firebox.com\/index.html?dir=firebox&amp;action=product&amp;pid=1077\">civet cat dropping coffee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUSSP22138820071114\">coffee growers in Taiwan <\/a>are now collecting the beans that the local monkeys spit out after eating the surrounding berry. Apparently the beans &#8220;yield a sweeter coffee with a vanilla-like scent&#8221;, and it&#8217;s less work for the farmers too.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It sounds like a win-win situation &#8211; there&#8217;s an incentive for the farmers to maintain the monkeys&#8217; habitat, and their coffee commands higher prices. And it is definitely better than cat poo.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>p.s. I was going to cover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/14605291\/detail.html\">this story<\/a>, but I&#8217;ll hold off until there&#8217;s photo or video evidence.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gio.gov.tw\/info\/ecology\/English\/bow_e\/milk_e\/milk_04_e.htm\">Photo credit<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dude, I am so totally wired right now D&#8217;you want some monkey spit with that latte? Hey, it&#8217;s better than cat poo. Yup, following on from the success of gourmet civet cat dropping coffee, coffee growers in Taiwan are now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/11\/16\/fridays-primate-party-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,34,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkeys","category-photos","category-primate-party","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}