{"id":2938,"date":"2016-04-19T06:57:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T22:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/no-dr-pepper-isnt-being-discontinued-so-please-calm-down\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T06:57:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T22:57:18","slug":"no-dr-pepper-isnt-being-discontinued-so-please-calm-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/no-dr-pepper-isnt-being-discontinued-so-please-calm-down\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Dr. Pepper isn't being discontinued so please calm down"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don’t worry, America, one soft drink giant has not purchased and discontinued Forrest Gump’s favorite sugar beverage, Dr. Pepper.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: 6 things to know about the future of the American diet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Over the last day or so, the world’s aunts and uncles have been sharing the below image across social media, bemoaning the message that it carried: Coca-Cola had bought Dr. Pepper (64 grams of sugar per 20 ounces) and was discontinuing the beverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Setting aside for the moment the terrible quality of the image, unprofessional fonts, grammatical errors, and lack of any official citation of the news, you can understand the concern of fans of Dr. Pepper (250 calories per 20 ounces).\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Don’t worry, America, one soft drink giant has not purchased and discontinued Forrest Gump’s favorite sugar beverage, Dr. Pepper.\u00a0 SEE ALSO: 6 things to know about the future of the American diet Over the last day or so, the world’s … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,2195,2196,2193,2194],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-business","tag-coca-cola","tag-dr-pepper","tag-forrest-gump","tag-soda-wars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}