{"id":21465,"date":"2015-10-30T02:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T09:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21465"},"modified":"2015-10-30T02:49:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T09:49:54","slug":"killer-halloween-candy-buy-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/killer-halloween-candy-buy-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Halloween Candy Buy Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/opcan.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Operation Gratitude Halloween Candy Buyback (halloweencandybuyback.com) November 2-6, 2015 includes over 100 dentists and merchants in California offering up to $1\/pound for your candy. \u00a0Military serving\u00a0overseas receive\u00a0care packages\u00a0filled with the candy,\u00a0tooth brushes, letters of appreciation and other items. Founded in 2003 by Californian\u00a0Carolyn Blashek\u00a0in her living room, the\u00a0one\u00a0millionth package\u00a0was handed to a service member on a ship in\u00a0December 2013.\u00a0More than\u00a0150,000 packages are sent each year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/small\/opbuyb.jpg\" alt=\"imgs\" width=\"285\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can Halloween candy kill you if you eat too much? Here are some<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dining\/sugar.html\"> long-term effects of sugar<\/a>. The main thing that happens\u00a0when\u00a0kids eating too much candy at Halloween is that it robs them of essential nutrients\u00a0available\u00a0in other foods.\u00a0Most kids will get sick, feel terrible and\u00a0experience a\u00a0sugar crash once the\u00a0body releases insulin and their blood sugar level tanks. Overeating tends to be\u00a0self-limiting&#8211;once you\u00a0get sick, you&#8217;ll stop eating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Gratitude Halloween Candy Buyback (halloweencandybuyback.com) November 2-6, 2015 includes over 100 dentists and merchants in California offering up to $1\/pound for your candy. \u00a0Military serving\u00a0overseas receive\u00a0care packages\u00a0filled with the candy,\u00a0tooth brushes, letters of appreciation and other items. Founded in 2003 by Californian\u00a0Carolyn Blashek\u00a0in her living room, the\u00a0one\u00a0millionth package\u00a0was handed to a service member on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}