{"id":6444,"date":"2012-06-15T21:22:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T04:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2012-06-15T21:22:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T04:22:42","slug":"california-pez-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-pez-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Your Pez and Pucker Up at California Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pez, the interactive candy sold in a plastic dispenser with a movable head that opens up to release single (rectangular) bite-size hard candies, has been a collector&#8217;s delight for 85 years. At the National Pez Convention in St. Louis this weekend you can see antique Pez collections and buy some flavored candies &amp; dispensers.<\/p>\n<p>Though the next convention is one year and thousands of miles away, you don&#8217;t have to wait for the next annual event, and you don&#8217;t have to go across the country to see the\u00a0 recently-opened National Pez Center in Orange, Connecticut, either.\u00a0 A mere 4 miles from San Francisco International Airport and less than 10 minutes by taxi or car you can visit Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia!\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;From the first moment I bought my Pez dispenser over 20 years ago I was Pez-ed,&#8221; says founder Gary Doss&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/burlingame-pez-museum.html\">Read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pez, the interactive candy sold in a plastic dispenser with a movable head that opens up to release single (rectangular) bite-size hard candies, has been a collector&#8217;s delight for 85 years. At the National Pez Convention in St. Louis this weekend you can see antique Pez collections and buy some flavored candies &amp; dispensers. Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444"}],"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=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}