{"id":6684,"date":"2011-11-06T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=6684"},"modified":"2011-11-08T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T04:03:00","slug":"pop-rocks-were-invented-by-the-same-guy-who-invented-tang-cool-whip-and-quick-setting-jell-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/pop-rocks-were-invented-by-the-same-guy-who-invented-tang-cool-whip-and-quick-setting-jell-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Rocks Were Invented by the Same Guy Who Invented Tang, Cool Whip, and Quick-Setting Jell-O"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pop-rock-tang-inventor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6685\" title=\"pop-rock-tang-inventor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pop-rock-tang-inventor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pop-rock-tang-inventor.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pop-rock-tang-inventor-340x198.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>Pop Rocks were invented by Chemist William A. Mitchell, who worked for General Foods.\u00a0 He also invented Tang, Cool Whip, quick-setting Jell-O, a tapioca substitute, and powdered egg whites, among other things.\u00a0 All total, he received over 70 patents in his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/why-pop-rocks-pop\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Pop Rocks were invented by Chemist William A. Mitchell, who worked for General Foods.\u00a0 He also invented Tang, Cool Whip, quick-setting Jell-O, a tapioca substitute, and powdered egg whites, among other things.\u00a0 All total, he received over 70 patents in his lifetime. Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[779,795,793,794],"class_list":["post-6684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-invention-facts","tag-invention-history","tag-pop-rocks-facts","tag-pop-rocks-origins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684","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=6684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6687,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions\/6687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}