{"id":1598,"date":"2005-12-04T16:54:37","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T00:54:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom gave me a package of lychee jelly to take back when I went back for Thanksgiving.  When my friend saw them, her immediate reaction \\&#8221;Aren\\&#8217;t they illegal?\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise (and maybe not), they have been banned in the United States and all across Europe.  Maybe I missed the big news a few years ago, but they apparently are no longer sold in stores because they are <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.food.gov.uk\/news\/newsarchive\/2003\/jul\/bannedsweets\\\">choking hazards for children<\/a>.  Unless I am wrong (and the lychee jelly cups have not changed in content), my mom obtained this bag illegally.  Or perhaps she didn\\&#8217;t know that and wanted to surprise my sister and me with some nice sweet treats.<\/p>\n<p>They are deliciously unhealthy and horribly messy, but for me, they recall a time of nostalgia in high school.  Where it\\&#8217;s exoticism, fascination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom gave me a package of lychee jelly to take back when I went back for Thanksgiving. When my friend saw them, her immediate reaction \\&#8221;Aren\\&#8217;t they illegal?\\&#8221; To my surprise (and maybe not), they have been banned in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1598\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}