{"id":200,"date":"2009-12-05T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/?p=200"},"modified":"2009-12-05T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T10:30:00","slug":"dollar-for-a-drink-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/dollar-for-a-drink-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar for a Drink Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently enjoying my first coffee in a week. This is for a different reason then <a target=\"_self\" href=\"newslist.asp?highlight=26\">my previous &#8220;coffee break&#8221;<\/a>. Our church&#8217;s young people group is studying <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.therebelution.com\/dohardthings\/\">Do Hard Things<\/a> and after the last lesson Kate challenged us to drink only water (for beverage &#8211; we could still eat!) for a week. Then for the times we would have had something other than water we could give towards <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dollarforadrink.org\/\">Dollar for a Drink<\/a>, an organization that builds wells in Sudan where there is a great need for clean water. Here in Canada there is loads of water everywhere &#8211; we never have to worry about that. Any here in our house there is lots to drink &#8211; coffee, milk, juice, hot chocolate, even tea. So this challenge was a good reminder to be thankful for what I have.<\/p>\n<p>What was it like only drinking water for a week? Not too bad. I mostly drink coffee and water so I only missed coffee. I had a mild headache for a fair bit of the first few days but it eventually faded. I found that I grew very sleepy in the afternoon so I wonder if caffeine really does help me stay more energetic during the afternoon. Hmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently enjoying my first coffee in a week. This is for a different reason then my previous &#8220;coffee break&#8221;. Our church&#8217;s young people group is studying Do Hard Things and after the last lesson Kate challenged us to drink only water (for beverage &#8211; we could still eat!) for a week. Then for the &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/dollar-for-a-drink-challenge\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}