{"id":2309,"date":"2005-05-26T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2018-06-06T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T21:14:12","slug":"foam-industry-ramps-up-production-government-to-make-everything-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/foam-industry-ramps-up-production-government-to-make-everything-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Foam Industry Ramps Up Production; Government to Make Everything Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City has banned almost everything else, so it&#8217;s turning to another hazardous substance that is too easily available to its irresponsible, befuddled citizens: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/24393.htm\" target=\"_new\">candy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Large mint balls, jawbreakers and other hard sweets \u2014 which can choke kids \u2014 could soon be banned for sale to children in the city.<\/p>\n<p>City Council Health Committee Chairwoman Christine Quinn yesterday introduced a bill that would outlaw the sale of what she termed &#8220;dangerously sized candy&#8221; to people under 14.<\/p>\n<p>She defined dangerously sized as between 3\/4 of an inch and 13\/4 of an inch in diameter. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>FROM MY WARM, STICKY MOUTH!<\/p>\n<p>(Submitted to the Outside the Beltway <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/10715\" target=\"_new\">Traffic Jam<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City has banned almost everything else, so it&#8217;s turning to another hazardous substance that is too easily available to its irresponsible, befuddled citizens: candy. Large mint balls, jawbreakers and other hard sweets \u2014 which can choke kids \u2014 could soon be banned for sale to children in the city. City Council Health Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","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=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20059,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/20059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}