{"id":541,"date":"2008-10-30T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T09:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expandsmtest.com\/franchiseking\/the-daily-franchise-news-going-under\/"},"modified":"2013-07-28T02:37:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T02:37:54","slug":"the-daily-franchise-news-going-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/the-daily-franchise-news-going-under","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Franchise News Going Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefranchiseking.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341ca59e53ef010535c492f1970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IStock_000002711019XSmall\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341ca59e53ef010535c492f1970b \" src=\"https:\/\/thefranchiseking.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341ca59e53ef010535c492f1970b-320wi\" style=\"width: 254px; height: 302px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Daily Franchise News<\/strong> has gone <em>underground <\/em>to get the scoop on a franchise that I of course knew about, but didn&#39;t have the courage to report on. Sometimes, the lack of intelligence in some of the inventors of certain franchise concept&#39;s astounds me to the point of utter paralysis. In the case, morbid paralysis. I almost did a short post on this franchise a couple of weeks ago, but as I said, just didn&#39;t have the courage. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #ff7f00;\">Halloween<\/span> <\/span>is my favorite holiday, and <strong>Alexis Mattera<\/strong>, a hilarious gal who writes at <strong>The Daily Franchise News<\/strong>, has scooped me for the 1st time ever, so in the Halloween spirit {Get it..spirit&#8230;hehehe} I am refraining from putting a <em><strong>hex <\/strong><\/em>on her and the entire staff over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandersonpr.com\">Sanderson PR<\/a> for doing this. <\/p>\n<p>Here is the story. <span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\">Scary Stuff&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Franchise News has gone underground to get the scoop on a franchise that I of course knew about, but didn&#8217;t have the courage to report on. Sometimes, the lack of intelligence in some of the inventors of certain franchise concept&#8217;s astounds me to the point of utter paralysis. In the case, morbid paralysis. 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