{"id":22235,"date":"2017-05-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=22235"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:24:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T06:24:46","slug":"weekend-reading-562017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/06\/weekend-reading-562017\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEKEND READING – 5\/6\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. Enjoy.<\/i><\/p>\n

KFC just published a ridiculously raunchy and bizarre romance novella starring a Casanova Colonel Sanders<\/a> (via Business Insider)<\/em><\/p>\n

Crooks Are After the Grease From Your French Fries<\/a> (via Bloomberg)<\/em><\/p>\n

Cincinnati Chili Is a Glorious Mess of Meat, Spaghetti, and Cheese<\/a> (via Munchies)<\/em><\/p>\n

People Broke Into My Starbucks App And Charged Me $100<\/a> (via BuzzFeed)<\/em> <\/p>\n

I Went to the World’s Biggest Spam Festival<\/a> (via Munchies)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. Enjoy. KFC just published a ridiculously raunchy and bizarre romance novella starring a Casanova Colonel Sanders (via Business Insider) Crooks Are After the Grease From Your French Fries (via Bloomberg) Cincinnati Chili Is a Glorious Mess of Meat, Spaghetti, and Cheese […]<\/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-22235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekend-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23554,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/15\/weekend-reading-7152017\/","url_meta":{"origin":22235,"position":0},"title":"WEEKEND READING – 7\/15\/2017","author":"Marvo","date":"July 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. 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