{"id":313,"date":"2007-03-28T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/28\/thankyoucomeagain\/"},"modified":"2007-03-28T12:48:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T17:48:47","slug":"thankyoucomeagain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/28\/thankyoucomeagain\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankyoucomeagain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Providing one of the few instances in which something from Richmond, VA has made me smile, the Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting that 7-Eleven, Inc. is nearing an agreement<\/a> to temporarily convert some of its stores to Kwik-E-Marts! From the article:<\/p>\n

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If all goes as planned, the convenience store chain plans to refit 11 stores across the U.S.<\/st1> — <\/st1>Richmond<\/st1> is an unlikely choice — to resemble the front of the Kwik-E-Mart, the convenience store that Homer and other characters frequent in the classic cartoon TV series.
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\n<\/o>Customers also will be able to buy products inspired by the nearly two-decades-old show, including KrustyO’s cereal, Buzz Cola and iced Squishees (the cup says Squishee, but the contents will be Slurpee).<\/o>\n<\/p>\n

<\/o>The chain also will use pictures of Simpsons characters to promote 7-Eleven’s line of fresh foods, such as placing the face of Homer and his classic “Mmmm . . . sandwich” quip on sandwich wrappers.<\/o><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No word on how the chain will handle store managers moved to violence after being called “Apu” for the 312th time in an evening . . .<\/p>\n

(via Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Providing one of the few instances in which something from Richmond, VA has made me smile, the Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting that 7-Eleven, Inc. is nearing an agreement to temporarily convert some of its stores to Kwik-E-Marts! From the article: If all goes as planned, the convenience store chain plans to refit 11 stores across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}