{"id":11969,"date":"2015-08-12T20:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T01:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11969"},"modified":"2015-08-12T20:16:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T01:16:15","slug":"professor-gives-staples-campaign-an-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/08\/12\/professor-gives-staples-campaign-an-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Gives Staples Campaign an A+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">APWU -08\/11\/2015<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Stop Staples<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>campaign deserves straight As, according to one California professor.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/content-images\/Dont%20Buy_StaplesQuill_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"248\" style=\"border: none;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During a July protest outside a store in Cupertino, CA, APWU retiree Ernest Johnson spoke with a professor who had been given a Staples gift card by his students.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign must have had a huge impact on the educator, said Darla Gilgannon, a retired APWU clerk at the protest: The professor bought a few items to show his appreciation to his students and donated the remainder of the gift card to the protesters and told them to use \u201cfor the cause.\u201d It all happened so fast that the protestors were unable to catch the benefactor\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had $19 left [on the gift card] and said, \u2018The students would appreciate that I got something, and gave the rest to Save the Postal Service!\u2019\u201d Gilgannon recalled. \u201cHis heart was really in the right place. He gets to go back and share the fact that his students got to help out and save our post office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, the professor said that he would never shop at Staples again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">\u201cThe kind of stuff that happens out here is amazing,\u201d said Gilgannon, who is secretary of the East Bay Local, and has been attending Staples protests almost daily, since January 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU -08\/11\/2015\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The\u00a0Stop Staples\u00a0campaign deserves straight As, according to one California professor.\u00a0 During a July protest outside a store in Cupertino, CA, APWU retiree Ernest Johnson spoke with a professor who had been given a Staples gift card by his students. The campaign must have had a huge impact on the educator, said Darla Gilgannon, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11971,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969\/revisions\/11971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}