{"id":2889,"date":"2009-07-17T22:19:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T02:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2009-07-17T22:19:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T02:19:33","slug":"starbucks-begins-a-locale-blending-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2889","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks Begins A Locale Blending Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=ice cream&#038;iid=275878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/0272\/8fff6f96-9f2c-4dca-b6b0-ff2f8f852a8a.jpg?resize=234%2C352\" width=\"234\" height=\"352\" align=\"right\" border=\"3\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Little Girl Eating Ice Cream on a Cone\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\"><\/script>Starbucks, which some people call &#8220;Fourbucks&#8221; because of the prices, will remove it&#8217;s name from one of its Seattle stores in an effort <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Starbucks-wipes-name-from-apf-2852535657.html?x=0\">to appeal to the budget-minded coffee drinker<\/a>.  The well-established store will be labeled 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea and will soon offer beer and wine along with coffee and tea.  I assume the prices will be the same, but maybe, just maybe, they will drop a bit.<\/p>\n<p>In other vital news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-7067-Seattle-Food-Examiner~y2009m7d17-Happy-National-Ice-Cream-Month\">July is National Ice Cream Month and this Sunday is National Ice Cream Day<\/a>.  So tell me, do you like floats, shakes, or malts?  What are your preferences?  I love shakes more than the others, though an icy Coke float with vanilla can be a nice, different treat.  I don&#8217;t like malt enough to enjoy malts or malt balls, but I can make them.  I have special training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks, which some people call &#8220;Fourbucks&#8221; because of the prices, will remove it&#8217;s name from one of its Seattle stores in an effort to appeal to the budget-minded coffee drinker. The well-established store will be labeled 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea and will soon offer beer and wine along with coffee and tea. I assume &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starbucks Begins A Locale Blending Plan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee-tea-drinks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}