{"id":620,"date":"2007-01-17T00:21:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T22:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=620"},"modified":"2014-10-02T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T17:24:12","slug":"rui-chenggang-and-the-starbucks-revolt-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Rui Chenggang and the Starbucks revolt in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may not know this, but there\u00b4s actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=starbucks%20forbidden&amp;w=all\">Starbucks inside the Forbidden City<\/a>. Personally, when I visit this amazing historical monument, I was shocked to see that this was the case. It seems that the Forbidden City is Forbidden to all&#8230;.but Starbucks, as there are no other commercial establishments inside this architectural wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, other than the fact that Starbucks offers expensive WiFi and its coffee that pales in comparison to Lavazza, my favorite brand, I have nothing against Starbucks. But the Forbidden City is not the place to open one up and when I was there I wondered what kind of corrupt official allowed that to happened.<\/p>\n<p>So I fully support my friend and Chinese blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sina.com.cn\/m\/ruichenggang\">Rui Chenggang<\/a> who started the Starbucks revolt in Beijing and may actually succeed in removing Starbucks from the most sacred place in secular China.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=620\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not know this, but there\u00b4s actually a Starbucks inside the Forbidden City. Personally, when I visit this amazing historical monument, I was shocked to see that this was the case. It seems that the Forbidden City is Forbidden to all&#8230;.but Starbucks, as there are no other commercial establishments inside this architectural wonder. Personally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7731,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/7731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}