{"id":203035,"date":"2010-01-20T10:34:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89451"},"modified":"2010-01-20T10:34:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:34:20","slug":"sweethearts-get-modern-day-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/203035","title":{"rendered":"Sweethearts Get Modern Day Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Sweethearts-Valentines-Day-Candy-Makeover-500x428.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sweethearts Valentines Day Candy Makeover\" width=\"500\" height=\"428\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-89452\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sweethearts, those tiny heart-shaped candies with expressions of love printed in pastel, are boasting new phrases for a new decade that respresent the ever-changing times we live in.<\/p>\n<p>The treats have been a Valentine&#8217;s Day tradition since the days of Lincoln, but for the first time in the candy\u2019s 145-year history, this year Sweethearts will feature contemporary sayings chosen by an online poll. Manfacturers dumped all the previous expressions and asked candy fans to write new ones. Voters came up with \u201cYou Rock,\u201d \u201cSoul Mate,\u201d \u201cLove Bug,\u201d \u201cTweet Me,&#8221; \u201cText Me.\u201dand \u201cMe &#038; You\u201d The company even has a Twitter account!<\/p>\n<p>The new Sweethearts will also offer some new flavors &#8211; including green apple, blue raspberry, strawberry, lemon, grape and orange.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/sweethearts-get-modern-day-makeover\/sweethearts-valentines-day-candy-makeover\/' title='Sweethearts Valentines Day Candy Makeover'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Sweethearts-Valentines-Day-Candy-Makeover-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sweethearts Valentines Day Candy Makeover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/sweethearts-get-modern-day-makeover\/sweethearts-valentines-day-candy\/' title='Sweethearts Valentines Day Candy'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Sweethearts-Valentines-Day-Candy-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sweethearts Valentines Day Candy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SLnBM4weRfz6hoXTPgRA5s2d_6s\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SLnBM4weRfz6hoXTPgRA5s2d_6s\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SLnBM4weRfz6hoXTPgRA5s2d_6s\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SLnBM4weRfz6hoXTPgRA5s2d_6s\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweethearts, those tiny heart-shaped candies with expressions of love printed in pastel, are boasting new phrases for a new decade that respresent the ever-changing times we live in. The treats have been a Valentine&#8217;s Day tradition since the days of Lincoln, but for the first time in the candy\u2019s 145-year history, this year Sweethearts will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}