{"id":16193,"date":"2017-01-19T10:29:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T16:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16193"},"modified":"2017-01-19T10:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T16:29:12","slug":"waste-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/19\/waste-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste the Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/wisconsin\/2017\/01\/18\/river-red-skittles-coat-dodge-county-highway\/96749758\/\" target=\"_new\">River of red Skittles coats Dodge County highway<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A rain-soaked box aboard a flatbed pickup truck ruptured in Dodge County, coating a stretch of County Highway S in Beaver Dam with hundreds of thousands of red Skittles, the sheriff&#8217;s office reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">. . . .<\/p>\n<p>The Dodge County Highway Department was called to clean up the candy-coated shells &#8211; packed with such yummy ingredients as sugar, corn syrup, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, tapioca dextrin, sodium citrate and carnauba wax &#8211; which were intended to be cattle feed because they did not make the cut for packaging, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get back to you when I think of an appropriate punchline.<\/p>\n<p>No, wait, I&#8217;ve got it!<\/p>\n<p><em>So this is where Uncle Herb&#8217;s Flavored Milk comes from!<\/em>  Except they don&#8217;t call the flavored milk booth at the Wisconsin State Fair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/bucks\/release\/milwaukee-bucks-and-prairie-farms-dairy-continue-milk-house-tradition-wisconsin-state-fair\" target=\"_new\">Uncle Herb&#8217;s these days<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River of red Skittles coats Dodge County highway: A rain-soaked box aboard a flatbed pickup truck ruptured in Dodge County, coating a stretch of County Highway S in Beaver Dam with hundreds of thousands of red Skittles, the sheriff&#8217;s office reported Wednesday. . . . . The Dodge County Highway Department was called to clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16194,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193\/revisions\/16194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}