{"id":1700,"date":"2008-08-28T14:49:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2008-08-28T14:49:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:49:46","slug":"new-wifi-cafe-in-oakland-awaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/new-wifi-cafe-in-oakland-awaken\/","title":{"rendered":"New WiFi Caf\u00e9 in Oakland: Awaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cyrusfarivar.com\/images\/espresso-awaken.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\"\/>I had a couple hours to chill between interview in downtown Oakland today and so I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awakencafe.com\/\">Awaken Caf\u00e9<\/a>, on 14th at Broadway. It&#8217;s a four-month-old, pleasant spot with free WiFi (you gotta ask for the password), great lattes ($2.50 for a small!), sweet bumper stickers, and friendly staff. Only recently, with the opening of The Trappist, have I started to explore downtown Oakland a bit, and this is definitely a welcome addition to The Town. Become a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/pages\/Oakland-CA\/Awaken-Cafe\/24296436961\">fan on Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Also, last week, I popped into a new SoMa caf\u00e9, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/epicenter-cafe-san-francisco\">Epicenter<\/a>, to get a couple hours of work done. That&#8217;s a bigger caf\u00e9, with more expensive lattes ($3.75!), but the rent is almost certainly higher there (heck, it&#8217;s adjacent to a Whole Foods). That said, there&#8217;s plenty of power outlets and couches. They said that they&#8217;re working on getting their liquor license, so it could be a good spot for an after work quiet drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a couple hours to chill between interview in downtown Oakland today and so I discovered Awaken Caf\u00e9, on 14th at Broadway. It&#8217;s a four-month-old, pleasant spot with free WiFi (you gotta ask for the password), great lattes ($2.50 for a small!), sweet bumper stickers, and friendly staff. Only recently, with the opening of The Trappist, have I started to explore downtown Oakland a bit, and this is definitely a welcome addition to The Town. Become a fan on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-coffee","category-oakland","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-rq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}