{"id":242,"date":"2007-03-04T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T19:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/04\/irony\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T20:11:50","slug":"irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irony:  Sitting in Starbucks having my second &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Eye_(drink)\">blackeye<\/a>&#8221; while reading an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/03\/AR2007030301100.html\">article in the Washington Post about how Starbucks<\/a> has &#8220;lost its soul and can&#8217;t find it&#8221;.  It&#8217;s true:  Starbucks doesn&#8217;t even smell like roasted coffee anymore &#8212; it&#8217;s &#8220;sterile and cookie cutter&#8221;.  Odd thing is that the quotes are from the Chairman of Starbucks, Howard Shultz.  They don&#8217;t even manually make the espresso anymore; they press a button on an automated machine.  The coffee is sealed in packages (no smell!).  The article also stated that Starbucks has 13,000 stores (and Shultz wants to expand to 45,000); they wonder why they are &#8220;sterile&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>I do like the taste of Starbucks&#8217; coffee.  I used to go to a local coffee-roasting shop, but the Starbucks store is more convenient for me right now.  I think I&#8217;ll start going back to the local place again, even if it is a few extra minutes away (they have good coffee &#8211; and it smells like roasting coffee in the place).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irony: Sitting in Starbucks having my second &#8220;blackeye&#8221; while reading an article in the Washington Post about how Starbucks has &#8220;lost its soul and can&#8217;t find it&#8221;. It&#8217;s true: Starbucks doesn&#8217;t even smell like roasted coffee anymore &#8212; it&#8217;s &#8220;sterile and cookie cutter&#8221;. Odd thing is that the quotes are from the Chairman of Starbucks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}