{"id":39,"date":"2011-02-10T00:56:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T00:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2011-02-10T00:56:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T00:56:26","slug":"39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Lifesavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifesavers have always been one of my favorite candies.\u00a0 While they tend to appeal to the Werther\u2019s crowd, as a child I loved them.\u00a0 I have fond memories of the 5 delicious flavors: Lime, Pineapple, Cherry, and some others.\u00a0 Really, all I cared about was LIME.\u00a0 I LOVED THEM. However, in 2003 a tragic decision was made to replace my favorite flavor with a disgusting alternative\u2026WATERMELON.\u00a0 I HATE watermelon flavored things.\u00a0 I throw them away as they are an insult to my palette.<\/p>\n<p>For years I lived life dejected, wondering if I would ever taste the magic of Lime Lifesavers again.\u00a0 Then, in 2010 I made a startling discovery.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Life_Savers\">Wikipedia<\/a> \u201cThe original five-flavor lineup is still sold in Canada.\u201d\u00a0 Determined, I applied for and obtained a new job that would ensure I would travel to Canada.*\u00a0 Finally, in December 2010 I was reunited with my beloved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifesavers have always been one of my favorite candies.\u00a0 While they tend to appeal to the Werther\u2019s crowd, as a child I loved them.\u00a0 I have fond memories of the 5 delicious flavors: Lime, Pineapple, Cherry, and some others.\u00a0 Really, all I cared about was LIME.\u00a0 I LOVED THEM. However, in 2003 a tragic decision&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/?p=39\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}