{"id":540,"date":"2004-03-17T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=540"},"modified":"2004-03-17T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T11:51:00","slug":"boy-am-i-a-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2004-03\/540-boy-am-i-a-sap","title":{"rendered":"Boy, am *I* a sap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xooz2\/138183.html\">suggestion to go to a certain coffee chain<\/a> (which shall remain nameless from now on!) to by a beverage to get them to donate $1 (up to $10K) to <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.treecanada.ca\/index_e.htm\">Tree Canada<\/a>, Gary wrote:<\/p>\n<p><i>The thought is good; I don&#8217;t want to totally trash the concept. However, it&#8217;s just too tempting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I suspect they are considering two things re the promo: March Break, and the day after St. Paddie&#8217;s, when many Torontonians will be eager to quaff a hot, soothing non-acoholic drink.<\/p>\n<ul>On the cynical side&#8230;<\/p>\n<li>ten thou is pretty cheap for a corporate and product promo<\/li>\n<li>how may trees will fall to make the cups &#038; paper serviettes for their new drink<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t be a sap &#8211; quit bleeding those trees!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>So I thought about it, and here&#8217;s an even better idea!<\/p>\n<p>Tree Canada has MANY ways you can <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.treecanada.ca\/shop\/index.htm\">purchase things<\/a> and cause a donation to happen. In fact, you can even <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.treecanada.ca\/shop\/donations.htm\">donate DIRECTLY<\/a> to Tree Canada! And Canadian residents receive tax receipts for donations of $25.00 or greater.<\/p>\n<p>You wouldn&#8217;t get THAT with your beverage. On the other hand, you wouldn&#8217;t get a beverage from donating directly.<\/p>\n<p>Remember this important point: The air we breathe comes from the trees. <b>If you like to breathe, plant a tree!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my suggestion to go to a certain coffee chain (which shall remain nameless from now on!) to by a beverage to get them to donate $1 (up to $10K) to Tree Canada, Gary wrote: The thought is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2004-03\/540-boy-am-i-a-sap\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}