{"id":6880,"date":"2014-01-03T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=6880"},"modified":"2021-08-15T10:06:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:06:54","slug":"tea-for-two-or-many-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/tea-for-two-or-many-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCome along inside\u2026We\u2019ll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kenneth Grahame; The Wind in the Willows<\/em><\/p>\n

The tea party is a staple of children\u2019s literature. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/i>, Lucy, on her first visit to Narnia, sits down to tea with the faun, Mr. Tumnus; in The House on Pooh Corner<\/i>, Pooh and Piglet share a Very Nearly Tea (which is one you forget about afterwards) with Christopher Robin; and in Alice in Wonderland<\/i>, Alice stumbles upon a peculiar and philosophically challenging tea party hosted by the maddening Mad Hatter.<\/p>\n

January, it turns out, is National Hot Tea Month, which makes perfect sense: it\u2019s cold outside and we\u2019re all thinking longingly of curling up in woolly slippers with a cup of something warm. Best of all, there are many mind-broadening resources \u2013 literary, geographical, historical, philosophical, and scientific \u2013 to make the experience even better.<\/p>\n

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