{"id":14474,"date":"2016-08-29T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14474"},"modified":"2016-08-28T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T02:52:14","slug":"the-secret-military-origins-of-the-mcdonalds-drive-thru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-secret-military-origins-of-the-mcdonalds-drive-thru\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Military Origins Of The McDonald\u2019s Drive Thru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/082916_0250_TheSecretMi1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ted Goodman wrote about the military&#8217;s role in the creation of McDonald&#8217;s drive thrus.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1975 the McDonald&#8217;s brand was running strong and it was a well-known and popular fast food restaurant.<\/li>\n<li>At the time a military base in Arizona had a rule against soldiers wearing their military fatigues in local establishments.<\/li>\n<li>McDonald&#8217;s wanted their business though, and to get around the military&#8217;s rules, they created an outdoor window that soldiers could order from, without having to actually enter the restaurant.<\/li>\n<li>Today this is recognized as the first ever McDonald&#8217;s drive thru.<\/li>\n<li>Sadly, while McDonald&#8217;s has a plaque memorializing it, the drive thru itself no longer exists \u2013 it has been turned into a parking lot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/08\/26\/ever-used-a-mcdonalds-drive-thru-thank-the-us-army\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/08\/26\/ever-used-a-mcdonalds-drive-thru-thank-the-us-army\/\">Daily Caller<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Goodman wrote about the military&#8217;s role in the creation of McDonald&#8217;s drive thrus. In 1975 the McDonald&#8217;s brand was running strong and it was a well-known and popular fast food restaurant. At the time a military base in Arizona had a rule against soldiers wearing their military fatigues in local establishments. McDonald&#8217;s wanted their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14474","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\/08\/082916_0250_TheSecretMi1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474","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=14474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14477,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474\/revisions\/14477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}