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Tim Hortons is the dark horse, but that’s where I’d put my money in this fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Hortons is the dark horse, but that’s where I’d put my money in this fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-pE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1848,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/coffee-break","url_meta":{"origin":1590,"position":0},"title":"Coffee break","author":"Gil","date":"January 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"There were two significant (and probably related) coffee announcements this week: McDonald's plans to add coffee bars to its stores, and Starbucks founder and chairman Howard Schultz has taken back his CEO role. 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