{"id":1934,"date":"2018-04-11T18:21:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2018-04-11T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:21:24","slug":"sugar-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":"Sugar to the rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news this week&#8230; cereal companies are returning to their traditional sugary recipes following several years of slumping sales of &#8220;healthy&#8221; option cereals with &#8220;natural&#8221; ingredients and all that jazz.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky Charms Frosted Flakes (love\u00a0writing that)\u00a0from General Mills and Chocolate Frosted Flakes from Kellogg are among those in this new wave of good taste. That drab-colored Trix unveiled a few years ago? Bye.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, there are still healthy cereals out there. That&#8217;s what a free market does. But food makers, please&#8230; don&#8217;t replace the good stuff with things the government wants\u00a0us to buy.<\/p>\n<p>This is America, dang it, and we won&#8217;t stand for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news this week&#8230; cereal companies are returning to their traditional sugary recipes following several years of slumping sales of &#8220;healthy&#8221; option cereals with &#8220;natural&#8221; ingredients and all that jazz. Lucky Charms Frosted Flakes (love\u00a0writing that)\u00a0from General Mills and Chocolate &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1934\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}