{"id":928,"date":"2008-09-06T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-09-06\/928"},"modified":"2008-09-06T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T21:00:03","slug":"one-intersection-two-starbucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-09-06\/928","title":{"rendered":"One Intersection, Two Starbucks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='057656' href=\"\/i\/JEF_057656.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_057656_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Starbucks Coffee D&amp;eacute;j&amp;agrave; Vu A Starbucks on both the East (background) and West (foreground) corners of Robson and Thurlow Vancouver, B.C., Canada -- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i057656\"\ntitle=\"The intersection of Robson and Thurlow Streets, in downtown Vancouver, with a Starbucks Coffee on two of the four corners.\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 17 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>160 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/11, ISO 640 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_057656.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_057656.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Starbucks Coffee D&eacute;j&agrave; Vu<\/span>\n<br\/>A Starbucks on both the East (background) and West (foreground) corners of Robson and Thurlow\n<br\/><small>Vancouver, B.C., Canada<\/small>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Walking around the ritzy (relatively speaking) area of downtown\nVancouver during <a href=\"\/blog\/2008-08-20\/914\">our recent\ntrip<\/a> there, <span class='nobr'>I came across<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a scene<\/span> that <span class='nobr'>I thought<\/span> existed only in the\nworld of late-show monologues: <span class='nobr'>a street<\/span> corner with <i>two<\/i> Starbucks\nCoffees.<\/p>\n\n<p>I kid you not.<\/p>\n\n<p>The photo above is horrible, of course, but all <span class='nobr'>I have<\/span> to show for the\nslightly-memorable event. <span class='nobr'>You can sort<\/span> of see the green Starbucks awnings on\nthe building catty-corner across the street.<\/p>\n\n<p>Despite some odd quirks (which <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2005-06-07\/30\">I've written about<\/a>), <span class='nobr'>I like the<\/span> coffee at Starbucks, but while in Vancouver, we sought out small, local\ncafes when we could, and were never disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking around the ritzy (relatively speaking) area of downtown Vancouver during our recent trip there, I came across a scene that I thought existed only in the world of late-show monologues: a street corner with two Starbucks Coffees.<\/p> <p>I kid you not.<\/p> <p>The photo above is horrible, of course, but all I have to show for the slightly-memorable event. You can sort of see the green Starbucks awnings on the building catty-corner across the street.<\/p> <p>Despite some odd quirks (which I've written about), I like the coffee at Starbucks, but while in Vancouver, we sought out small, local cafes when [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}