{"id":8953,"date":"2013-02-27T15:19:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=8953"},"modified":"2013-02-27T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:28:10","slug":"its-our-300th-post-hooray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=8953","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Our 300th Post &#8211; Hooray! And a Behind-the-Scenes Video!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8954\" alt=\"CC_300th Post TITLE PLATE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CC_300th-Post-TITLE-PLATE.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CC_300th-Post-TITLE-PLATE.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CC_300th-Post-TITLE-PLATE-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Today is a special one for me as it marks the 300th post for CollectingCandy.com.\u00a0\u00a0 When I launched this site just over a year ago, I wasn&#8217;t really thinking of getting to 300 &#8211; I was just hoping to get through that first month.\u00a0\u00a0 But I did, and with the support of visitors and friends I&#8217;ve made it all the way to today.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great pleasure to be able to share so much of my perspective and all of this fun candy-related content with you.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the occasion, I&#8217;ve created a behind-the-scenes video showing you some of the things that go into creating a typical CollectingCandy.com blog post.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Before I get to the video, I do want to apologize for being out of commission and not posting anything new for these past two weeks.\u00a0 My most recent post was on Valentine&#8217;s Day, and after that I took a planned few days off, then started working on today&#8217;s video.\u00a0\u00a0 I wanted this post to be #300 and it just took a lot longer than I had planned.<\/p>\n<p>During these last two weeks, I celebrated a birthday (hooray again!) and spent a lot of time teaching myself FinalCut ProX, and Motion5.\u00a0 Those two pieces of software helped me make today&#8217;s video what I wanted it to be.\u00a0 My results might still be a little rough around the edges at times, but I hope you&#8217;ll bare with me as I plan to make short videos a somewhat regular feature here on the site.\u00a0\u00a0 I learned a lot these past two weeks and I hope to apply that education to make future videos even better.<\/p>\n<p>So without further explanation, here is my video segment for CollectingCandy.com&#8217;s 300th post [running time is just over 8 minutes]:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G2RTHxTQCv0?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I utilized two sort-of-candy-related 20-second music clips in that video from songs and bands that I really dig.\u00a0\u00a0 They&#8217;re <em>Almond Joy<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/harmarsuperstar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Har Mar Superstar<\/a> and <em>Candy<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidentsrock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Presidents of the United States of America<\/a> respectively and I think they&#8217;re pretty fantastic.\u00a0\u00a0 You might dig them too , so I&#8217;ve provided a quick link if you want to check them out below.<\/p>\n<p>See you next time!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=collectincom-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B002RDIJ0G\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=collectincom-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B000QZWJCG\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, everyone! Today is a special one for me as it marks the 300th post for CollectingCandy.com.\u00a0\u00a0 When I launched this site just over a year ago, I wasn&#8217;t really thinking of getting to 300 &#8211; I was just hoping &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=8953\">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":[24,47,5,722],"tags":[621,33,10,321,316,328,351,332,14,20,324,78,333,205,21,15,348,11],"class_list":["post-8953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-boxed","category-bubble-gum","category-gummies","tag-angry-birds","tag-bubblegum","tag-candy","tag-candy-collecting","tag-candy-collection","tag-candy-collector","tag-candy-wrapper-collection","tag-candy-wrapper-collector","tag-collectible","tag-collecting","tag-collecting-candy","tag-confectionery","tag-confections","tag-leaf","tag-packaging","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-2kp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953","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=8953"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8976,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions\/8976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}