{"id":4618,"date":"2018-04-10T08:19:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=1a8a5dabb5ffd80da4168cf68fcf0cbf"},"modified":"2018-04-10T08:19:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:19:20","slug":"tim-hortons-apologizes-for-misunderstanding-says-proceeds-from-humboldt-doughnut-will-be-donated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/10\/tim-hortons-apologizes-for-misunderstanding-says-proceeds-from-humboldt-doughnut-will-be-donated\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Hortons apologizes for \u2018misunderstanding,\u2019 says proceeds from Humboldt doughnut will be donated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER, N.S. &#8212; Tim Hortons is apologizing for a &#8220;misunderstanding&#8221; after a Halifax-area franchisee reportedly sold doughnuts in the Humboldt Broncos&#8217; colours without intending to donate the proceeds to the team.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it has since launched a national fundraising campaign to support the junior hockey team that was involved in a horrific collision that left 15 people dead in Saskatchewan last week.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Hortons says the franchise owner in Fall River, N.S., made a &#8220;personal donation&#8221; and created the green-and-yellow doughnuts as a tribute to the team before the chain&#8217;s fundraising campaign rolled out.<\/p>\n<p>It says that the restaurant will, in fact, be donating all proceeds from sales of the doughnut to the hockey team.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification comes after StarMetro Halifax reported that an unidentified manager of the franchise said the doughnuts were meant as a gesture to those affected by the tragedy, but that proceeds wouldn&#8217;t be sent to Humboldt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER, N.S. &mdash; Tim Hortons is apologizing for a &ldquo;misunderstanding&rdquo; after a Halifax-area franchisee reportedly sold doughnuts in the Humboldt Broncos&rsquo; colours without intending to donate the proceeds to the team. The company says it has since launched a national fundraising campaign to support the junior hockey team that was involved in a horrific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4619,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/4619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}