{"id":26872,"date":"2018-01-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=26872"},"modified":"2021-01-14T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T06:46:07","slug":"weekend-reading-1-27-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/27\/weekend-reading-1-27-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEKEND READING &#8211; 1\/27\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"text-align:center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pedrik\/15692160514\/\" title=\"Popcorn\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7520\/15692160514_292a114a4f_z.jpg?resize=640%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Popcorn\"\/><\/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=https:\/\/munchies.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/mbpnav\/remembering-the-great-anti-popcorn-hysteria-of-1994>Remembering the Great Anti-Popcorn Hysteria of 1994<\/a> <em>(via Munchies)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/525313\/what-makes-pop-rocks-pop>What Makes Pop Rocks Pop?<\/a> <em>(via Mental Floss)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2018\/01\/26\/579762957\/in-london-the-american-food-aisle-is-filled-with-nostalgia-and-preservatives>In London, The American Food Aisle Is Filled With Nostalgia And Preservatives<\/a> <em>(via NPR&#8217;s The Salt)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/www.eater.com\/2018\/1\/23\/16919966\/tasty-made-chipotle-burgers-review-richard-blais-improved-menu>What People Really Think of Chipotle\u2019s Burger Spinoff, Tasty Made<\/a> <em>(via Eater)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><a href=https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pedrik\/15692160514><\/a>Image via flickr user pedrik \/ <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. Remembering the Great Anti-Popcorn Hysteria of 1994 (via Munchies) What Makes Pop Rocks Pop? (via Mental Floss) In London, The American Food Aisle Is Filled With Nostalgia And Preservatives (via NPR&#8217;s The Salt) What People Really Think of Chipotle\u2019s Burger [&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-26872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekend-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28793,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/18\/weekend-giveaway-plenty-of-pop-tarts-packs\/","url_meta":{"origin":26872,"position":0},"title":"WEEKEND GIVEAWAY: Plenty of Pop-Tarts Packs","author":"Marvo","date":"May 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I have plenty of Pop-Tarts. 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Enjoy. 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Enjoy. The Creator of That Horrible Pop Tart Cheese Sandwich Made a New Item for Arby\u2019s (via Munchies) I Tasted Every Butterbeer-Flavored Thing Inside The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (via Food & Wine) Building a\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":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Arbys-Logo.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Arbys-Logo.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Arbys-Logo.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":28001,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/31\/weekend-giveaway-more-candy-to-give-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":26872,"position":3},"title":"WEEKEND GIVEAWAY: More Candy to Give Away!","author":"Marvo","date":"March 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Still got candy to give away. 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