{"id":3504,"date":"2008-02-26T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:37:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:37:44","slug":"starbucks-is-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/starbucks-is-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks is closing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 5:30-8:30 this evening, there&#8217;s going to be trouble. Feet will tap, heads will ache and sweat will trickle down restless foreheads. <strong><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/business\/content\/business\/stories\/2008\/02\/25\/starbucks_0226.html?imw=Y\">Starbucks is closing<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>6 weeks ago, Howard Schultz took over the reins (again) as CEO of Starbucks. Since then, he&#8217;s been on a mission to return the company to its previous form. Today, every store throughout the nation will close for three hours for &#8220;remedial espresso training.&#8221; Or in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbucks.com\/aboutus\/pressdesc.asp?id=833\">Schultz&#8217; terms<\/a>, &#8220;to teach, educate and share our love of coffee, and the art of espresso.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow. What an undertaking! 5:30 &#8211; 8:30 on Tuesday nights is a very likely time we&#8217;ll be stopping by one of our local Starbucks to grab a hot drink before our community group &#8211; as do several others in our group. Might make for restless (or sleepy) meeting time tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Since this news came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchmarketingsucks.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/starbucks_3hour.html\">CMS<\/a> &#8211; what if our churches closed for one weekend service to focus on staff\/leadership etc? What about your place of work &#8211; think your boss would close the doors for 3 hours one week to improve your appreciation for your job?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 5:30-8:30 this evening, there&#8217;s going to be trouble. Feet will tap, heads will ache and sweat will trickle down restless foreheads. Starbucks is closing. 6 weeks ago, Howard Schultz took over the reins (again) as CEO of Starbucks. Since then, he&#8217;s been on a mission to return the company to its previous form. Today, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/starbucks-is-closing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starbucks is closing!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[4650,386],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-newsandpop","tag-faith","tag-starbucks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Uw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11041,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/11041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}