{"id":1929,"date":"2014-03-17T15:55:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T22:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2014-03-17T15:55:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T22:55:17","slug":"a-coffee-maker-that-refuses-the-wrong-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/a-coffee-maker-that-refuses-the-wrong-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"A coffee-maker that refuses the &#8220;wrong&#8221; coffee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Gillmor <a href=\" http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/mar\/06\/green-mountain-coffee-maker-competition\">writes<\/a> about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnavigator-usa.com\/Manufacturers\/Green-Mountain-Coffee-Roasters-Game-changing-Keurig-2.0-will-tackle-unlicensed-K-Cup-challenge\">Keurig coffee machine from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters<\/a> that will simply not brew competitors&#8217; coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, say what?<\/p>\n<p>The mind boggles.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ford cars refusing to run on gas that isn&#8217;t Exxon?<\/li>\n<li>Microwaves refusing the heat up home-cooked food?<\/li>\n<li>Sidewalks refusing to let people jog on them who don&#8217;t wear Nikes?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What a great opportunity for companies that actually produce value for the customer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Gillmor writes about a Keurig coffee machine from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters that will simply not brew competitors&#8217; coffee. Sorry, say what? The mind boggles. What&#8217;s next? Ford cars refusing to run on gas that isn&#8217;t Exxon? Microwaves refusing the heat up home-cooked food? Sidewalks refusing to let people jog on them who don&#8217;t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,59,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big_picture","category-comments","category-economics-2","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}