{"id":53,"date":"2005-01-04T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2005-01-04T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T22:58:09","slug":"krispy-kreme-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/20050104\/krispy-kreme-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Krispy Kreme Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had recently read an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/douweosinga.com\/projects\/googlehacks\">Google Hacks<\/a> and there is even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0596004478\/apocomb-20\">book<\/a>.  So it didn&#8217;t take me long to realize that what I had recently stumbled on was a Krispy Kreme Hack.<\/p>\n<p>In an on going attempt to balance the calories I consume with the temptations around me, I have started ordering just two doughnuts at a time from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krispykreme.com\/\">Krispy Kreme<\/a>&#8211;one for me and one for my wife.  This satisfies my desires with only a 200 calorie hit.<\/p>\n<p>Two original glazed are only $1.50.  The first time I make this order the lady at the drive-thru window hands me the box and says, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The doughnuts inside appeared to be slightly marred by the &#8216;straw pick-up&#8217; technique.  I guess these would have been thrown away had in not been for me swinging by that morning.<\/p>\n<p>A month later in a different state we made the same order and sadly had to pay the $1.50.  I open the box wondering if I got stiffed with  seconds as well&#8211;seemed karmically appropriate&#8211;instead, four perfect original glazed instead of the two I ordered and paid for.<\/p>\n<p>I own stock in Krispy Kreme and was doing quite well until those Atkin&#8217;s bastards came along and it was internet stock <em>deja vu<\/em>.  Maybe this is the only way I can get my money back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had recently read an article on Google Hacks and there is even a book. So it didn&#8217;t take me long to realize that what I had recently stumbled on was a Krispy Kreme Hack. In an on going attempt to balance the calories I consume with the temptations around me, I have started ordering &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/20050104\/krispy-kreme-hack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Krispy Kreme Hack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb6Km-R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}