{"id":16626,"date":"2015-02-12T13:54:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=16626"},"modified":"2015-02-12T13:54:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T18:54:04","slug":"our-550th-post-plus-our-biggest-video-announcement-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=16626","title":{"rendered":"Our 550th Post!  Plus Our Biggest Video Announcement Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16627\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CC_550th-Post-TITLE-PLATE.jpg\" alt=\"CC_550th Post TITLE PLATE\" width=\"1024\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CC_550th-Post-TITLE-PLATE.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CC_550th-Post-TITLE-PLATE-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today marks CollectingCandy.com&#8217;s 550th post!\u00a0 Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big number and comes on the heels of the site&#8217;s third anniversary just last week.\u00a0 With that in mind, we&#8217;ve decided to use the occasion to announce a major new endeavor spinning out of CollectingCandy.com.\u00a0 The announcement comes in the form of a video (for reasons which will be obvious upon viewing said video). So make the jump and check it out!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Without further introduction, here is our 550th post special announcement video and preview of things to come!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UoKByRuFQZ0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I hope you dug that sneak preview of what&#8217;s coming up, and I hope you&#8217;ll be joining me for all the potential fun, adventure (and momentary awkwardness) that my new endeavor promises to deliver.\u00a0 See you next time!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16628\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CC_550th-Post-CLOSING-IMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"CC_550th Post CLOSING IMAGE\" width=\"1024\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CC_550th-Post-CLOSING-IMAGE.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CC_550th-Post-CLOSING-IMAGE-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks CollectingCandy.com&#8217;s 550th post!\u00a0 Hooray! It&#8217;s a big number and comes on the heels of the site&#8217;s third anniversary just last week.\u00a0 With that in mind, we&#8217;ve decided to use the occasion to announce a major new endeavor spinning &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=16626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1184],"tags":[321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,1181,1182,21,450,15,1179,1180,341,1183,11],"class_list":["post-16626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thecandygeek","tag-candy-collecting","tag-candy-collection","tag-candy-collector","tag-candy-wrapper-collection","tag-candy-wrapper-collector","tag-collectible","tag-collecting-candy","tag-confectionery","tag-confections","tag-new-york-comic-con","tag-nycc","tag-packaging","tag-packaging-design","tag-sweets","tag-the-candy-geek","tag-thecandygeek","tag-vintage-candy-wrappers","tag-vlog","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-4ka","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16626"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16636,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626\/revisions\/16636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}