{"id":29,"date":"2002-08-07T00:04:49","date_gmt":"2002-08-07T08:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jokeofalltrades.com\/root\/?p=29"},"modified":"2002-08-07T00:04:49","modified_gmt":"2002-08-07T08:04:49","slug":"my-new-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/2002\/08\/07\/my-new-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"My new addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMy new crack: Altoids Tangerine Sours. These things are <em>good<\/em>. What little hope my teeth had of surviving my middle age is gone. I am hooked.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s the Altoids website, but it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altoids.com\/\">worthless<\/a>. It&#8217;s completely Flashed out and has no mention of the Tangerine Sours. [UPDATE: As of 8\/14\/2002, the site now includes a section on the new Altoids Sours hard candy. It&#8217;s still all Flash and contains no useful product information, and doesn&#8217;t rescale to the size of your browser window, but the videos are mildly entertaining.&#8212;<em>Ed.<\/em>] However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elle.com\/DailyEssentials\/ArticleDisplay.asp?ArticleID=217\">Elle<\/a> has a picture; you can buy them at Target or Trader Joe&#8217;s or lots of other places I imagine, but if you have trouble finding them, you can order them from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candy4u.com\/altansour.html\">Candy Depot<\/a> for the outrageous price of $12 for 4 tins (of course, their minimum order is $15!).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWARNING: Altoids Tangerine Sours are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.custom-deluxe.com\/archives\/00000124.html\">highly addictive<\/a>. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Altoids+%22tangerine+sours%22\">Google search<\/a> turns up mostly blog raves from fans typing on a Sours high. You have been duly warned.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"np\">NP: Jefferson Airplane, <i>White Rabbit<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new crack: Altoids Tangerine Sours. These things are good. What little hope my teeth had of surviving my middle age is gone. I am hooked. Here&#8217;s the Altoids website, but it&#8217;s worthless. It&#8217;s completely Flashed out and has no mention of the Tangerine Sours. [UPDATE: As of 8\/14\/2002, the site now includes a section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}