{"id":4938,"date":"2011-03-08T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2011-03-07T01:50:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T09:50:46","slug":"where-the-name-twinkies-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/where-the-name-twinkies-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Name &#8220;Twinkies&#8221; Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Twinkie-name1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4940\" title=\"Twinkie-name\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Twinkie-name1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Twinkie-name1.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Twinkie-name1-340x185.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=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and More Twinkies Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The name \u201cTwinkies\u201d for the sponge-cake food was thought up by James Dewar, the Vice President of Continental Bakeries who sold under the Hostess brand.\u00a0 On the way to a marketing meeting, he saw a billboard advertising \u201cTwinkle-Toes Shoes\u201d, and thought up the name \u201cTwinkies\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Twinkies Facts Text Version: The name \u201cTwinkies\u201d for the sponge-cake food was thought up by James Dewar, the Vice President of Continental Bakeries who sold under the Hostess brand.\u00a0 On the way to a marketing meeting, he saw a billboard advertising \u201cTwinkle-Toes Shoes\u201d, and thought up the name \u201cTwinkies\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938","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=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}