{"id":31541,"date":"2016-12-05T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31541"},"modified":"2016-11-30T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:20:14","slug":"qotd-wine-merchants-using-alarmist-tactics-to-sell-their-own-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/05\/qotd-wine-merchants-using-alarmist-tactics-to-sell-their-own-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Wine merchants using alarmist tactics to sell wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019m a mom of three young kids. That means I like to have a glass of wine <strike>with breakfast, lunch, and dinner<\/strike> now and then. And since my kids seem to grow out of their clothes and shoes seconds after I\u2019ve purchased them, I like to get a good deal on a <strike>box<\/strike> bottle or two. Luckily for me, there is stiff competition in the wine industry, which means I can get wines from around the world at prices I can afford.<\/p>\n<p>Yet with competition comes increased need to attract customers. And some companies are resorting to a new strategy: Alarmism.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the recent suggestion by some wine companies that some corks are not just inferior, but dangerous. That might seem silly to some or just a lousy marketing stunt to others, but it\u2019s a familiar and all-too-effective tactic used on moms who are constantly encouraged to police their homes for threats to their families.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Gunlock, <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/05\/19\/wine-alarmists-should-stick-a-cork-in-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Wine Alarmists Should Stick a Cork In It: Stop whining about the non-existent dangers of certain wine corks, and start drinking&#8221;, <em>The Federalist<\/em><\/a>, 2015-05-19.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a mom of three young kids. That means I like to have a glass of wine with breakfast, lunch, and dinner now and then. And since my kids seem to grow out of their clothes and shoes seconds after I\u2019ve purchased them, I like to get a good deal on a box bottle or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":""},"categories":[831,66,41,131],"tags":[428,375],"class_list":["post-31541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-health-science","category-quotations","category-wine","tag-marketing","tag-parents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8cJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36489,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31541\/revisions\/36489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}