{"id":402,"date":"2009-04-30T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2019-04-10T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T11:19:08","slug":"gbye-starsucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"G&#8217;Bye, Starsucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/SeR1x4GthuI\/AAAAAAAABN8\/OUwCAUltfss\/s1600-h\/Pedstarsucks.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 170px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/SeR1x4GthuI\/AAAAAAAABN8\/OUwCAUltfss\/s320\/Pedstarsucks.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324510159193343714\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">It&#8217;s all my fault, blame it all on me.  I just read the following in a local blog:<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/span><i>The latest round of Starbucks store closings hits East County, with close-by locations soon to shut down among 300 worldwide.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">[Photo from the &#8216;net; I&#8217;m not in it.]  Both of the soon-to-close Starsucks locations are close to where I live.  Okay, I&#8217;m not a wuss, I can take it:  blame me!  I really don&#8217;t like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=starbucks\">urban guppie\/yuppie-ism<\/a> to which Starsucks appeals, and the almost zombie-like drones who fall for it and spent $5 on a cup of coffee!  Are they nuts or just made of money?  (probably both.  Just check their cell phone bills.)<\/p>\n<p>Did I have something to do with the closing of these two stores because I never patronized them?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; I doubt it.  But will I miss them?<\/p>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>Life is more simple and cost-effective when we do things like prepare our own meals and brew our own coffee at home.  <\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"> In a month, you can save the world by donating the money you save to a good cause (or two, or three.)  Donating to &#8220;good causes&#8221; is a great appeal to the save-the-planet guppies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all my fault, blame it all on me. I just read the following in a local blog: The latest round of Starbucks store closings hits East County, with close-by locations soon to shut down among 300 worldwide. [Photo from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}