{"id":281,"date":"2003-09-23T22:17:37","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T06:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=281"},"modified":"2003-09-23T22:17:37","modified_gmt":"2003-09-24T06:17:37","slug":"106438065761542108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/106438065761542108\/","title":{"rendered":"106438065761542108"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I finally received my HaidaBucks T-shirt in smart black with the logo and name prominant. And on Friday I ran into Cliff Fregin at the Vancouver airport, a friend and one of the original owners of Haida Bucks. He tells me all’s well that ends well, that Starbucks backed down and Haida Bucks has withstood the legal onslaught. They issued a press release in August stating: <\/p>\n

Lately, the coffee in Masset, a small town on the remote island of Haida Gwaii, tastes especially sweet. That’s because HaidaBucks, a small indigenous-owned coffee house and restaurant located there, is savouring its victory over Starbucks and its claims of trademark infringement.<\/div>\n

Read the whole thing here<\/a> and then go order a T-shirt for yourself<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Congrats to Cliff and his partners. Still no word from Starbuck Customer Relations on why they told a couple of big fibs<\/a>. I guess we’ll just have to let it go…and grab our coffees elsewhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I finally received my HaidaBucks T-shirt in smart black with the logo and name prominant. And on Friday I ran into Cliff Fregin at the Vancouver airport, a friend and one of the original owners of Haida Bucks. He tells me all’s well that ends well, that Starbucks backed down and Haida Bucks has withstood the legal onslaught. They issued a press release in August stating: Lately, the coffee in Masset, a small town on the remote island of Haida Gwaii, tastes especially sweet. That’s because HaidaBucks, a small indigenous-owned coffee house and restaurant located there, is savouring its …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-4x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}