{"id":616,"date":"2011-04-01T19:22:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T03:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/?p=616"},"modified":"2011-07-14T19:26:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T03:26:45","slug":"what-are-the-colored-things-in-the-groupon-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/item\/what-are-the-colored-things-in-the-groupon-ads","title":{"rendered":"What Are The Colored Things In The Groupon Ads?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-617\" title=\"Colored Things In Groupon Ads\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/groupon-ad-colored-things.jpg\" alt=\"Colored Things In Groupon Ads\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been bugging me for months. It seemed like every time I go to a site that&#8217;s running ads there is a picture of a delicious looking pile of- something? Are they tiny pastel-colored hamburgers? Are they soap? I hope not because they look like I should be eating them. Clicking the ad only takes me to the Groupon sign up page.<br \/>\nThe other day I was poking around in Flickr and I saw a picture of some of these mystery items that someone had taken. I clicked on the picture and the caption held the answer; they are French macaroons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-618\" title=\"Mystery solved- they're French macaroons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/french-macaroons.jpg\" alt=\"Mystery solved- they're French macaroons\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-619\" title=\"French macaroon cross-section\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/french-macaroon-cross-section.jpg\" alt=\"French macaroon cross-section\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nI feel better now that I know what they are (and also that I didn&#8217;t have a strong desire to eat soap).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s been bugging me for months. It seemed like every time I go to a site that&#8217;s running ads there is a picture of a delicious looking pile of- something? Are they tiny pastel-colored hamburgers? Are they soap? I hope not because they look like I should be eating them. Clicking the ad only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}