{"id":1052,"date":"2025-08-27T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:50:34","slug":"starbucks-co-founder-gordon-bowker-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/starbucks-co-founder-gordon-bowker-dies-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks Co-Founder Gordon Bowker Dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"462\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"OG Coffee Guy 50 years\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OG-Coffee-Guy-50-years-1.jpeg\"><\/div>\n<p>Gordon Bowker, the writer-turned-entrepreneur who co-founded Starbucks in 1971 and helped set the course for the specialty coffee movement in Seattle and beyond, died last week at the age of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Bowker, the writer-turned-entrepreneur who co-founded Starbucks in 1971 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}