{"id":19,"date":"2008-01-14T20:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T02:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/?p=19"},"modified":"2011-06-27T20:38:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T02:38:19","slug":"is-herbal-tea-against-the-word-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/2008\/01\/is-herbal-tea-against-the-word-of-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Is herbal tea against the Word of Wisdom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cDo you have a citation that states that <em>Camellia sinensis<\/em> is the reason\u00a0 tea is against the Word of Wisdom? I\u2019m a bit sorry to admit that I used to drink tea\u2014both black and herbal\u2014before joining the Church of Jesus Christ, but have never done so since my baptism because it was\u2014and is\u2014my understanding that tea means tea, period.\u201d (Jeff)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for writing, Jeff.<\/p>\n<p><em> Camellia sinensis<\/em> is tea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tea\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Herbal tea is fine because it is not made from the tea plant, or is\u00a0not steeped using parts of Camellia sinensis plant. In other words,\u00a0it\u2019s not tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo you have a citation that states that Camellia sinensis is the reason\u00a0 tea is against the Word of Wisdom? I\u2019m a bit sorry to admit that I used to drink tea\u2014both black and herbal\u2014before joining the Church of Jesus Christ, but have never done so since my baptism because it was\u2014and is\u2014my understanding that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/2008\/01\/is-herbal-tea-against-the-word-of-wisdom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is herbal tea against the Word of Wisdom?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-drinks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Bc4t-j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}