{"id":4128,"date":"2011-01-13T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:20:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:20:30","slug":"the-origin-of-the-twinkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/the-origin-of-the-twinkie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of the Twinkie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/origin-of-twinkies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"origin-of-twinkies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/origin-of-twinkies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/origin-of-twinkies.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/origin-of-twinkies-340x262.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Twinkie Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/twinkies-are-only-good-for-25-days\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Read More Interesting Twinkie Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twinkies were created in 1930 as ladyfinger-shaped spongecakes.\u00a0\u00a0 They were first thought up by James A. Dewar, the vice president of Continental Bakeries who sold under the Hostess brand.\u00a0 Dewar sought to put the machines used to make cream filled strawberry shortcake to good use when strawberrys were out of season and the machines normally sat idle.\u00a0 So he got an idea to create a banana cream filled cake.\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 Originally, Twinkies were filled with banana cream, which I suppose explains why they chose to make them look as they do.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Read More Interesting Twinkie Facts Text Version Twinkies were created in 1930 as ladyfinger-shaped spongecakes.\u00a0\u00a0 They were first thought up by James A. Dewar, the vice president of Continental Bakeries who sold under the Hostess brand.\u00a0 Dewar sought to put the machines used to make cream filled strawberry shortcake to good use when [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1157,1156],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-twinkie-history","tag-twinkie-origin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4131,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions\/4131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}