{"id":1377,"date":"2010-03-12T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T00:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2010-03-13T15:22:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T22:22:48","slug":"apollo-god-of-coffeehouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Apollo, God of Coffeehouses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Solar<\/a>Back when Enchant\u00e9<\/em> was a zine rather than a blog<\/a>, Brightshadow did a series of articles on \u201cgods of the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

These were representations of the Old Gods in statuary, architecture, etc., primarily in New York City, where he lives.<\/p>\n

New York has no monopoly on them, of course. I like riding a morning train into Chicago from the east and seeing the rising Sun light up the statue of Ceres<\/a> on the Chicago Board of Trade building<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n

Pueblo, Colorado, has a coffeehouse dedicated to Phoebus Apollo<\/a>. You can see him in his Sun-chariot over the door.<\/p>\n

No, it\u2019s not across from a hospital and full of doctors. City Hall types are more prevalent.<\/p>\n

The owners have put the Sun to work, however. All of their coffee is solar-roasted in a variety of home-built roasters, which you can see on their Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I would tend to associate coffeehouses with Hermes\u2014all the brain buzz, the clicking laptop keyboards, the newspapers and books.<\/p>\n

But this one\u2019s Apollo\u2019s.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Still learning my way around WordPress\u2014I hit a little glitch and lost the comments on this post. Sorry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back when Enchant\u00e9 was a zine rather than a blog, Brightshadow did a series of articles on \u201cgods of the city.\u201d These were representations of the Old Gods in statuary, architecture, etc., primarily in New York City, where he lives. New York has no monopoly on them, of course. 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