{"id":21544,"date":"2017-03-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=21544"},"modified":"2021-01-10T19:48:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T05:48:32","slug":"weekend-reading-3252017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/25\/weekend-reading-3252017\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEKEND READING &#8211; 3\/25\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"text-align:center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mateeas\/11120827053\/\" title=\"Peanut butter and jelly sandwich\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/8\/7393\/11120827053_f1b330c274_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Peanut butter and jelly sandwich\"\/><\/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.espn.com\/espn\/feature\/story\/_\/page\/presents18931717\/the-nba-secret-addiction>The NBA&#8217;s Secret Addiction<\/a> <em>(via ESPN)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/eat\/nation\/taco-bell-tacos-maker-machine>Why Taco Bell Killed The Secret Machine That Makes 900 Tacos Per Hour<\/a> <em>(via Thrillist)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dunkin-donuts-is-killing-the-coolatta-2017-3>Dunkin&#8217; Donuts is killing the Coffee Coolatta<\/a> <em>(via Business Insider)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.eater.com\/2017\/3\/23\/14950304\/cheerwine-history>A Brief History of Cheerwine<\/a> <em>(via Eater)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><a href=https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mateeas\/11120827053><\/a>Image via flickr user Matias Garabedian \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC BY SA 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. 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The NBA&#8217;s Secret Addiction (via ESPN) Why Taco Bell Killed The Secret Machine That Makes 900 Tacos Per Hour (via Thrillist) Dunkin&#8217; Donuts is killing the Coffee Coolatta (via Business Insider) A Brief History of Cheerwine (via Eater) Image via [&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-21544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekend-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20713,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/15\/weekend-reading-10152016\/","url_meta":{"origin":21544,"position":0},"title":"WEEKEND READING &#8211; 10\/15\/2016","author":"Marvo","date":"October 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. 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