{"id":1312,"date":"2008-10-21T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T23:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/10\/21\/now-drinking-not-zima\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T02:50:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T06:50:18","slug":"now-drinking-not-zima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/10\/21\/now-drinking-not-zima\/","title":{"rendered":"Now drinking.  Not Zima."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Zima has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=808020\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=808020', 'officially');\" target=\"new\">officially<\/a> been put out of its misery; well almost.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MillerCoors LLC has stopped brewing Zima because of \u201cchallenging\u201d sales and \u201cdeclining consumer interest\u201d in the flavored malt beverage segment, according to a statement by Andy England, chief marketing officer. The last bottles of Zima will likely be shipped to the brewer\u2019s wholesale distributors in December.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/misc\/zima_bottles.jpg\" alt=\"Zima Beer Bottles\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Except for people like me and this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pitch.com\/fatcity\/2008\/10\/zima_we_hardly_knew_ye.php\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blogs.pitch.com\/fatcity\/2008\/10\/zima_we_hardly_knew_ye.php', 'dude');\" target=\"new\">dude<\/a> posting stupid stories about Zima, I do not think anyone will care that Zima is done.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Man, if I only had a nickel for every Zima I\u2019ve downed, I\u2019d have 15 cents. That\u2019s right, I\u2019ve managed to choke down smoothly enjoy three ice-cold, refreshing Zimas. The last one was right before entering a high school dance. (Note to high school males reading this: Nothing says \u201cmanliness\u201d to your date like chugging a Zima too quickly and then throwing half of it back up in your mouth.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not saying I am proud or anything, but I would probably be closing in on a buck seventy-five.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I am not drinking Zima.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Zima has officially been put out of its misery; well almost. MillerCoors LLC has stopped brewing Zima because of \u201cchallenging\u201d sales and \u201cdeclining consumer interest\u201d in the flavored malt beverage segment, according to a statement by Andy England, chief marketing officer. The last bottles of Zima will likely be shipped to the brewer\u2019s wholesale &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/10\/21\/now-drinking-not-zima\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now drinking.  Not Zima.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","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-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}