{"id":203750,"date":"2014-06-30T06:48:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T06:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/30\/a-guide-to-writing-sherlockian-tea-habits\/"},"modified":"2014-06-30T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T06:48:08","slug":"a-guide-to-writing-sherlockian-tea-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/30\/a-guide-to-writing-sherlockian-tea-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to Writing Sherlockian-Tea Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/enigmaticpenguinofdeath.tumblr.com\/post\/26358790781\/a-guide-to-writing-sherlockian-tea-habits\" target=\"_blank\">enigmaticpenguinofdeath<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><em>or How to Prevent Your British Readers Thinking \u201cwtf is John doing with that lapsang souchong?\u201d <br \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><em>A reprint of the <span class=\"st1\">Reminiscences of enigmaticpenguinofdeath, a Tea-Drinking Englishwoman.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span class=\"st1\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/img703.imageshack.us\/img703\/8771\/sherlocktea.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>First off, I am not a <\/span><span>tea sommelier. I don\u2019t sell or work with tea, I have no professional qualifications in anything to do with tea. But I do drink tea, and I am British \u2013 English, to be more precise (and yes people from far-off lands, there is a difference, but I\u2019ll stick to British for now). This means I am as well placed as anyone from this little island to be arrogantly judgemental about how some poor misguided people who aren\u2019t fortunate enough to be British write strange, wtf-inducing descriptions of the consumption of tea. I am writing this with particular reference to Sherlock fanfiction and characters such as John, Sherlock, Mycroft and Greg, but some of my points are applicable to wider British-set-fandom fics in general. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>It\u2019s alright now, poor confused tea-worriers; I am here to help you. Not everyone likes to be individually Brit-picked so here is a primer in tea to set you on the right path. Let\u2019s get down to business. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enigmaticpenguinofdeath.tumblr.com\/post\/26358790781\/a-guide-to-writing-sherlockian-tea-habits\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>enigmaticpenguinofdeath: or How to Prevent Your British Readers Thinking \u201cwtf is John doing with that lapsang souchong?\u201d A reprint of the Reminiscences of enigmaticpenguinofdeath, a Tea-Drinking Englishwoman. First off, I am not a tea sommelier. I don\u2019t sell or work with tea, I have no professional qualifications in anything to do with tea. But I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/30\/a-guide-to-writing-sherlockian-tea-habits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Guide to Writing Sherlockian-Tea Habits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5326,9666,1532,21655,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}