{"id":21297,"date":"2017-02-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=21297"},"modified":"2023-02-26T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T02:22:12","slug":"weekend-reading-2252017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/25\/weekend-reading-2252017\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEKEND READING &#8211; 2\/25\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"text-align:center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeepersmedia\/14624408711\/\" title=\"7-Eleven\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3889\/14624408711_8e97bf06c7_z.jpg?resize=640%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"378\" alt=\"7-Eleven\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. Enjoy.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/common-fake-foods-at-grocery\/#1-wasabi-1>8 popular American foods that aren&#8217;t what you think they are<\/a> <em>(via Business Insider)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/eating-kent-eater-competitive-history-nicholas-wood-food>Competitive Eating Was Even More Disgusting in the 17th Century<\/a> <em>(via Atlas Obscura)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.eater.com\/2017\/2\/23\/14715060\/kfc-healthy-blogger-figgy-poppleton-rice>KFC Trolls \u2018Clean-Eating\u2019 Bloggers in New Ad Campaign<\/a> <em>(via Eater)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/munchies.vice.com\/en\/articles\/heres-what-the-president-of-iceland-told-us-about-the-pineapple-pizza-ban>Here\u2019s What the President of Iceland Told Us About the \u2018Pineapple Pizza Ban\u2019<\/a> <em>(via Munchies)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><a href=https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeepersmedia\/14624408711><\/a>Image via flickr user Mike Mozart \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. Enjoy. 8 popular American foods that aren&#8217;t what you think they are (via Business Insider) Competitive Eating Was Even More Disgusting in the 17th Century (via Atlas Obscura) KFC Trolls \u2018Clean-Eating\u2019 Bloggers in New Ad Campaign (via Eater) Here\u2019s What the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekend-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21428,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/18\/weekend-reading-3182017\/","url_meta":{"origin":21297,"position":0},"title":"WEEKEND READING &#8211; 3\/18\/2017","author":"Marvo","date":"March 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. 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Enjoy. Will McDonald's customers wait for the new Quarter Pounder? (via Reuters) Behold This Giant List Of Restaurants Offering Birthday Freebies & Discounts (via Consumerist) Wait, How Do Brands Actually Shoot Food Into Space? 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Enjoy. \u201cVile And Amazing\u201d: Fans Of Jack In The Box Tacos Defend Their Undying Devotion (via Consumerist) Meet the woman behind that viral Wendy's Twitter burn (via The Daily Dot) A Cool History of Cookie Puss\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weekend Reading&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weekend Reading","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/category\/weekend-reading\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"IMG_0041","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5608\/32097927026_e71d5df0c1_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5608\/32097927026_e71d5df0c1_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5608\/32097927026_e71d5df0c1_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20296,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/09\/weekend-reading-792016\/","url_meta":{"origin":21297,"position":3},"title":"WEEKEND READING &#8211; 7\/9\/2016","author":"Marvo","date":"July 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Trying something new. 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