{"id":468,"date":"2007-04-05T13:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T18:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2007-04-05T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T18:08:07","slug":"my-apologies-for-the-product-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"my apologies for the product placement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larabar.com\/secure\/index_.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vegkansascity.com\/images\/products\/Larabar.jpg\" alt=\"larabar\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nok, i think that most of you frequent readers of the happy stuff blog know that i don&#8217;t generally plug specific products, but i just have to tell you about this new snack bar i&#8217;ve discovered.  i stumbled across these in the local co-op when i was shopping for organic clif bars (also quite tasty) and was intrigued.  i fell in love with the cherry pie flavor at first bite.  here&#8217;s the ingredient list:  dates, almonds, dried unsweetened cherries.  that&#8217;s it.  they taste sooooo good and there&#8217;s nothing bad in them!  i love that they trust the natural flavors of the ingredients to stand on their own and don&#8217;t try to muck it up with cinnamon or oatmeal or something.  the ingredient list is so simple that i&#8217;m sort of tempted to try to make some at home, but i keep envisioning a giant, sticky mess.<\/p>\n<p>[full disclosure: <em> after<\/em> writing this entry, i went to the larabar website to see if they had any apricot flavors and found their blog.  apparently, there&#8217;s a &#8220;contest&#8221; for people writing about larabars on their blog.  so, this will be an entry, but i <em>swear<\/em> i found out about the contest after i wrote this!  hey, they might send me free stuff! and you know how i feel about<a href=\"http:\/\/jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=380\"> free stuff<\/a>&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, i think that most of you frequent readers of the happy stuff blog know that i don&#8217;t generally plug specific products, but i just have to tell you about this new snack bar i&#8217;ve discovered. i stumbled across these &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=468\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}