{"id":131,"date":"2007-08-04T15:41:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T12:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=131"},"modified":"2007-08-04T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T12:41:44","slug":"nie-swag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/2007\/08\/04\/nie-swag\/","title":{"rendered":"Nie Swag."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium has, arguably, some of the best beer in the world. Lots of small, and not-so-small breweries.<\/p>\n<p>But almost none of them have any logo-wear of any kind. Sure, they have glasses, and maybe coasters, but no caps, polo shirts, t-shirts or anything else.<\/p>\n<p>The really big places do, like Chimay. And I was able to buy a pressed metal sign from Het Anker (we stayed at the hotel attached to the brewery), but that is it. Almost nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Now maybe swag is an American thing, and maybe no one in Europe would buy the beer swag, but I don&#8217;t know. I see Europeans wearing some pretty ridiculous looking (imho) logo wear from clothing manufactures and auto racing teams.<\/p>\n<p>I think the breweries are missing out on a money making angle here.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, maybe I can get a job as Administrator of Selling Swag for a major brewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium has, arguably, some of the best beer in the world. Lots of small, and not-so-small breweries. But almost none of them have any logo-wear of any kind. Sure, they have glasses, and maybe coasters, but no caps, polo shirts, t-shirts or anything else. The really big places do, like Chimay. And I was able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}