{"id":198384,"date":"2015-04-06T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T02:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=198384"},"modified":"2015-04-06T12:25:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T02:25:53","slug":"swirls-is-an-instant-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/swirls-is-an-instant-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Swirls is an instant hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_198385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198385\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Swirls-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-198385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Swirls-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The \u201cSwirls\u201d family smiles for the camera. (Dennis Chan)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The \u201cSwirls\u201d family smiles for the camera. (Dennis Chan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Clean, colorful, and family-friendly, \u201cSwirls\u201d\u2014a new yogurt, coffee, and smoothie shop in Garapan\u2014is an instant hit. Located near American Memorial Park, hundreds dropped by for their soft opening on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Blanco and his wife, Sheryl, call the shop a \u201cteam\u201d project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe name came from my wife,\u201d said Blanco, who enjoyed his many stops at Starbucks in Japan while in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco said his wife came up with the idea of opening their own frappe and smoothies place. But it was a trip together to a busy yogurt shop in Australia that inspired what they have today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything just kind of clicked together,\u201d Sheryl Blanco said. \u201cEven how we came upon the name. Everything that we offer has a swirl in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Together with their daughters Celine, Gianna, and Hanna, they mixed, matched and chipped away at their current design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPops and colors\u201d is what their daughters brought to the table, Sheryl Blanco said. \u201cThey were able to add younger flavor to our original concepts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are so energetic,\u201d Harry Blanco said.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, \u201cSwirls\u201d rotates four yogurt flavors everyday. Popular is the chocolate. They offer a fruit flavor everyday.\u00a0 Yesterday, it was coconut. On Saturday, it was banana.<\/p>\n<p>The store has a whole line of espresso drinks and a different kind of smoothie. It\u2019s creamier, not icy or slushy. Sheryl Blanco said they use a fruit puree and a creamier base.<\/p>\n<p>And like their logo and uniform, their daughters were \u201cmasterminds\u201d behind the recipes, the Blancos said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean, colorful, and family-friendly, \u201cSwirls\u201d\u2014a new yogurt, coffee, and smoothie shop in Garapan\u2014is an instant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":198385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[268,3574,170,3575],"class_list":["post-198384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-american-memorial-park","tag-harry-blanco","tag-japan","tag-sheryl-blanco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}