{"id":28032,"date":"2014-08-21T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=28032"},"modified":"2014-08-21T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:45:08","slug":"elephant-dung-coffee-beans-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/08\/21\/elephant-dung-coffee-beans-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Dung Coffee Beans?  I&#8217;ll Pass!  (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elephant Dung Coffee Beans?  I&#8217;ll Pass!  (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>This brew concept&#8217;s hard to digest.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a crappy plan &#8212; far from the best:<br \/>\nAmp up elephant mash<br \/>\nWith coffee beans.  Rash?<br \/>\nGrab a stool and retrieve.  Have a fest!<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/08\/20\/340154271\/no-1-most-expensive-coffee-comes-from-elephants-no-2?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=news\">Canadian entrepreneur Blake Dinkin<\/a> produces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackivorycoffee.com\/\">Black Ivory Coffee<\/a> in Thailand&#8217;s &#8220;Golden Triangle&#8221; via elephant dung.  Of course his website describes it rather more genteelly as &#8220;Naturally refined by elephants and made from 100% Thai Arabica coffee beans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>I previously wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/07\/30\/chinese-exports-the-real-poop\/\">Chinese panda-dung giftware<\/a> on my other blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elephant Dung Coffee Beans? I&#8217;ll Pass! (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane This brew concept&#8217;s hard to digest. It&#8217;s a crappy plan &#8212; far from the best: Amp up elephant mash With coffee beans. Rash? Grab a stool and retrieve. Have a fest! ***** Yes, Canadian entrepreneur Blake Dinkin produces Black Ivory Coffee in Thailand&#8217;s &#8220;Golden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,41,2693,42],"tags":[546,3578,817,545,4287,4289,4286,4288],"class_list":["post-28032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-humor","category-food-drink-humor","category-inventions-humor","category-limericks","tag-caffeine-humor","tag-coffee-beans","tag-coffee-drinks-humor","tag-coffee-verse","tag-dung-humor","tag-elephant-dung","tag-elephant-humor","tag-excrement-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28032"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28048,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28032\/revisions\/28048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}