{"id":14146,"date":"2016-06-05T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14146"},"modified":"2016-06-05T11:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:31:37","slug":"ice-cream-truck-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/ice-cream-truck-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cream Truck Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/060516_1529_IceCreamTru1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ice cream trucks are battling it out on the streets of New York, write Andy newman and Emily S. Rueb:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New York&#8217;s streets have never been for faint-hearted ice cream sellers. In the 60s an ice cream truck driver was kidnapped and had his truck blown up by competitors.<\/li>\n<li>In 2004 a couple selling ice cream cones were beaten with a wrench.<\/li>\n<li>Today the battle rages on between two popular chains: Mister Softee and New York Ice Cream (NYIC).<\/li>\n<li>NYIC believes that midtown New York is its turf, and if a Mister Softee truck is seen on those streets, trucks will be ordered to surrounded the Softee truck, blocking it from making sales.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile Softee drivers have claimed turf around the Upper East Side and East Harlem and carry bats in their vans in case a competitor dares to hawk its wares.<\/li>\n<li>Like all iconic war stories, the warring parties were allies once \u2013 indeed, NYIC trucks actually used to be Mister Softee trucks, but rather than pay Mister Softee high licensing fees, the owner of NYIC repainted a bunch of trucks and started his own chain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/31\/nyregion\/a-king-of-ice-cream-a-renegade-upstart-and-a-simmering-turf-war.html?_r=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/31\/nyregion\/a-king-of-ice-cream-a-renegade-upstart-and-a-simmering-turf-war.html?_r=0\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice cream trucks are battling it out on the streets of New York, write Andy newman and Emily S. Rueb: New York&#8217;s streets have never been for faint-hearted ice cream sellers. In the 60s an ice cream truck driver was kidnapped and had his truck blown up by competitors. In 2004 a couple selling ice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/060516_1529_IceCreamTru1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14149,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146\/revisions\/14149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}