{"id":9786,"date":"2011-03-03T15:21:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9786"},"modified":"2011-03-03T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:30:58","slug":"carlsbad-bottlers-win-housewares-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9786","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Bottlers Win Housewares Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dissassembled.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dissassembled.jpg','popup','width=572,height=365,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dissassembled-tm.jpg\" height=\"127\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Dissassembled\" \/><\/a>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexbottle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Hydration Bottle<\/a><\/strong> created by <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em>-based company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicereusables.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nice Reusables<\/a><\/strong> is now an &#8220;award winning&#8221; water bottle, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2011\/mar\/03\/carlsbad-water-bottle-maker-wins-best-houseware-aw\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Its A<strong>lex Hydration Bottle<\/strong>, won &#8220;Best in Category for Tabletop &#38; Beverageware&#8221; at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.housewaresdesignawards.com\/hda\/links\/past_winners_profile.asp?ID=502\" target=\"_blank\">2011 Housewares Design Awards<\/a><\/strong>. . . &#8220;When we started this, we had no idea where it would go, and obviously the functionality was what we started with,&#8221; company co-founder Chris Hotell said. &#8220;To be recognized for the design part of it is such an accomplishment for us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hotell owns the company with his wife, Olympic snowboarder <strong>Gretchen Bleiler<\/strong> and his mom <strong>Marta Hotell<\/strong>. Support a local <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> company and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexbottle.com\/shop.php\" target=\"_blank\">click here to buy one<\/a><\/strong>. And to get a better understanding on what the company is about, read the FAQ on the site. It&#8217;s one of the funniest we&#8217;ve read in a while. Now we know what a Zebra is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2011\/mar\/03\/carlsbad-water-bottle-maker-wins-best-houseware-aw\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexbottle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Bottle<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alex Hydration Bottle created by Carlsbadistan-based company Nice Reusables is now an &#8220;award winning&#8221; water bottle, according to a story in the San Diego Union Tribune. Its Alex Hydration Bottle, won &#8220;Best in Category for Tabletop &#38; Beverageware&#8221; at the 2011 Housewares Design Awards. . . &#8220;When we started this, we had no idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9790,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions\/9790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}