{"id":6460,"date":"2012-09-14T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2012-09-14T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:44:41","slug":"a-fun-one-for-friday-fleers-8-gumballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6460","title":{"rendered":"A Fun One For Friday &#8211; Fleer&#8217;s &#8220;8 Gumballs&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6461\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6461\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6461\" title=\"CC_Fleer - 8 Gumballs- 1971 - TITLE PLATE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CC_Fleer-8-Gumballs-1971-TITLE-PLATE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CC_Fleer-8-Gumballs-1971-TITLE-PLATE.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CC_Fleer-8-Gumballs-1971-TITLE-PLATE-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featuring one of the more on-the-nose names of a candy product you&#8217;re likely to see,\u00a0 1971&#8217;s &#8220;8 Gum balls&#8221; from Fleer appears to be just that, a package filled with 8 different flavored gumballs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I have to wonder what the talk was in the marketing department the day this one was named.\u00a0\u00a0 In a way though, it just sort of works.<\/p>\n<p>The pack I have in my collection has never been opened, so it still has the multi-flavored goodness inside.\u00a0 Here it is:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6462\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6462\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6462\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6462\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6462\" title=\"CC_Fleer's - 8 Gumballs - candy gum package - 1971\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CC_Fleers-8-Gumballs-candy-gum-package-1971.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CC_Fleers-8-Gumballs-candy-gum-package-1971.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CC_Fleers-8-Gumballs-candy-gum-package-1971-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fleer &#8211; 8 Gumballs &#8211; candy gum package &#8211; 1971<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love the gumball-machine illustration for the front, and the minimalist layout of flavors on the back of the package. \u00a0 To my eye, this is really a wonderful piece of pop art.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing I like is that it would appear that some exotic flavors were included &#8211; at least exotic for gumballs at the time.\u00a0 Banana and pineapple were not flavors you&#8217;d find in a typical gumball machine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a neat, unusual piece from four-decades back, and one I&#8217;m delighted to be able to share with you today.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s everything I&#8217;ve got on Fleer&#8217;s 8 Gumballs.\u00a0 See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring one of the more on-the-nose names of a candy product you&#8217;re likely to see,\u00a0 1971&#8217;s &#8220;8 Gum balls&#8221; from Fleer appears to be just that, a package filled with 8 different flavored gumballs.<\/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":[24,199,34],"tags":[317,507,519,321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,491,21,15,348,11],"class_list":["post-6460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-fleer","category-gum-2","tag-1970s-candy","tag-1970s-fleer","tag-1970s-gum","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-fleer-gum","tag-packaging","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-1Gc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460","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=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6470,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions\/6470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}