{"id":4016,"date":"2007-09-16T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2019-06-01T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T15:25:13","slug":"also-copy-change-changes-its-name-to-fedex-diverse-alternate-not-that-theres-anything-wrong-with-that-lifestylos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/16\/also-copy-change-changes-its-name-to-fedex-diverse-alternate-not-that-theres-anything-wrong-with-that-lifestylos\/","title":{"rendered":"Also, Copy Chain Changes Its Name to FedEx Diverse-Alternate-Not-That-Theres-Anything-Wrong-With-That-Lifestylos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/14118277\/detail.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coffee Chain Changes Name Over Concerns It&#8217;s An Ethnic Slur<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A small but growing coffeehouse chain is changing its name amid concern that the moniker meant to celebrate the seed of its main product also is a disparaging term for Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>Beaner&#8217;s Coffee, based in East Lansing, Mich., on Friday informed franchisees and employees at its 77 stores in Michigan and eight other states that it would become Biggby Coffee, effective Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That just doesn&#8217;t really fall within our mission to have a name that is derogatory,&#8221; Bob Fish, 44, Beaner&#8217;s chief executive, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. &#8220;We felt it was important to do the right thing and change the name.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, doo-wop music shall henceforth be known as doo-biggby music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee Chain Changes Name Over Concerns It&#8217;s An Ethnic Slur: A small but growing coffeehouse chain is changing its name amid concern that the moniker meant to celebrate the seed of its main product also is a disparaging term for Hispanics. Beaner&#8217;s Coffee, based in East Lansing, Mich., on Friday informed franchisees and employees at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24614,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/24614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}