{"id":2961,"date":"2005-02-01T15:18:22","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2005-02-01T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T15:18:22","slug":"one-expensive-mug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/one-expensive-mug\/","title":{"rendered":"One Expensive &#8216;Mug&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>(AP) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/02\/01\/national\/main670754.shtml\" class=\"external external_icon\">A jury has awarded $15.6 million to a man whose image was used for years without his permission on Taster&#8217;s Choice coffee labels<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image670755l.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/image670755l.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"131\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russell Christoff, a former model from Northern California, posed for a two-hour Nestle photo shoot in 1986 but figured it was a bust ? until he stumbled across his likeness on a coffee jar while shopping at a drug store in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>He first came across his picture while shopping for bloody mary mix, and says there&#8217;s a good reason he didn&#8217;t spot it sooner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t buy Taster&#8217;s Choice,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I do beans.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via 7d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) A jury has awarded $15.6 million to a man whose image was used for years without his permission on Taster&#8217;s Choice coffee labels. Russell Christoff, a former model from Northern California, posed for a two-hour Nestle photo shoot in 1986 but figured it was a bust ? until he stumbled across his likeness on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}