{"id":748,"date":"2009-12-21T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=748"},"modified":"2015-01-01T06:45:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T11:45:56","slug":"kiss-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/kiss-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-749\" title=\"Hersheys_kisses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/hersheys_kisses.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who doesn&#8217;t like Hershey&#8217;s kisses?<\/strong> It&#8217;s another classic American corporation that has been bitten by the reinvention bug. Product extensions have created for Hershey&#8217;s a new line of favorite flavors increasing their bottom line (and American waistlines), but how far is <em>too<\/em> far? Nobody really argued with Almonds, Hugs or even Mint. But now there&#8217;s Peanut Butter (giving Reese&#8217;s a run for their money), Cherry Cordials (the wife&#8217;s fave), Pink (for Valentine&#8217;s day) and Truffle. I thought they pushed the aluminum foil wrapped envelope a bit too far when they introduced Candy Cane. Let&#8217;s face it, Nog and Fruitcake probably aren&#8217;t that far off!<\/p>\n<a id=\"pd_a_2412839\"><\/a><div class=\"CSS_Poll PDS_Poll\" id=\"PDI_container2412839\" style=\"\"><\/div><div id=\"PD_superContainer\"><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/polldaddy.com\/p\/2412839\" target=\"_blank\">Take Our Poll<\/a><\/noscript>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t like Hershey&#8217;s kisses? It&#8217;s another classic American corporation that has been bitten by the reinvention bug. Product extensions have created for Hershey&#8217;s a new line of favorite flavors increasing their bottom line (and American waistlines), but how far is too far? Nobody really argued with Almonds, Hugs or even Mint. But now there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-c4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7888,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/7888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}