{"id":11505,"date":"2018-11-23T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T20:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11505"},"modified":"2023-07-06T20:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T00:25:41","slug":"coffee-is-a-slow-poison-voltaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11505","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Is a Slow Poison, Voltaire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dear Quote Investigator:<\/strong>\u00a0Coffee enthusiasts enjoy sharing an anecdote about Voltaire who savored the aromatic beverage throughout his life. The famous philosopher\u2019s physician warned him that coffee was a slow poison. He replied, \u201cYes, it is a remarkably slow poison. I have been drinking it every day for more than seventy-five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But did this exchange occur between Voltaire and his doctor or was it someone else and someone else&#8217;s doctor? What are the facts interfering with this story?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2018\/11\/22\/coffee\/\">The Quote Investigator spells it out.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Quote Investigator:\u00a0Coffee enthusiasts enjoy sharing an anecdote about Voltaire who savored the aromatic beverage throughout his life. The famous philosopher\u2019s physician warned him that coffee was a slow poison. He replied, \u201cYes, it is a remarkably slow poison. I have been drinking it every day for more than seventy-five years.\u201d But did this exchange &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coffee Is a Slow Poison, Voltaire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[2288,3281],"class_list":["post-11505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","category-coffee-tea-drinks","tag-quotations","tag-voltaire"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18430,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505\/revisions\/18430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}