{"id":5561,"date":"2012-08-02T08:17:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T12:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=5561"},"modified":"2012-08-02T08:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T12:18:47","slug":"wonka-weekend-preview-super-skrunch-and-oompas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=5561","title":{"rendered":"Wonka Weekend Preview! – Super Skrunch and Oompas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This Friday and Saturday, CollectingCandy.com will feature back-to-back posts on the two original offerings of the Wonka candy brand.\u00a0\u00a0 Included will be several never-before-seen wrappers that should serve as fun surprises.<\/p>\n

I’m excited to bring these important pieces of Wonka history to you, but there’s still work to be completed before I’ll be ready to unveil part one, so today I want to offer up a teaser image for what’s to come.<\/p>\n

With that in mind – check out this early trade ad from January 1972, featuring Willy Wonka’s “first two candies”; Super Skrunch and Peanut Butter Oompas!<\/p>\n

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Quaker Oats – Willy Wonka’s Candies – Super Skrunch and Peanut Butter Oompas – trade ad – January 1972<\/p><\/div>\n

I hope that today’s teaser image serves as a tantalizing sneak-peek at what I’ve got lined up for the next two days and that you can stop by tomorrow for the first of this weekend’s Wonka-riffic posts.<\/p>\n

See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Friday and Saturday, CollectingCandy.com will feature back-to-back posts on the two original offerings of the Wonka candy brand.\u00a0\u00a0 Included will be several never-before-seen wrappers that should serve as fun surprises. I’m excited to bring these important pieces of Wonka … Continue reading →<\/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":[24,119,164],"tags":[317,493,379,494,321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,495,21,496,15,348,386,350,11],"class_list":["post-5561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-peanut-butter","category-wonka","tag-1970s-candy","tag-1970s-willy-wonka","tag-70s-candy","tag-70s-wonka-candy","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-oompas","tag-packaging","tag-skrunch-bar","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-willy-wonka-candy","tag-wonka-candy","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-1rH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561","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=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5578,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions\/5578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}