{"id":28631,"date":"2021-10-28T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/its-time-to-dredge-up-the-annual-panic-stories-about-drug-laced-candy#id30868"},"modified":"2021-10-28T03:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T03:11:00","slug":"parker-molloy-its-halloween-which-means-its-time-to-dredge-up-the-annual-panic-stories-about-drug-laced-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/parker-molloy-its-halloween-which-means-its-time-to-dredge-up-the-annual-panic-stories-about-drug-laced-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker Molloy: It\u2019s Halloween, which means it\u2019s time to dredge up the annual panic stories about drug-laced candy."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The &ldquo;strangers might drug your kids&rsquo; Halloween candy&rdquo; meme is mostly an urban legend. There&rsquo;s a 1959 incident involving a dentist who handed out 450 pieces of candy-covered laxatives to trick-or-treaters, making as many as 30 of the recipients sick.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readthepresentage.com\/p\/the-persistent-myth-of-drugged-halloween\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The Present Age<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/its-time-to-dredge-up-the-annual-panic-stories-about-drug-laced-candy\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        The &ldquo;strangers might drug your kids&rsquo; Halloween candy&rdquo; meme is mostly an urban legend. There&rsquo;s a 1959 incident involving a dentist who handed out 450 pieces of candy-covered laxatives to trick-or-tr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28632,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28631\/revisions\/28632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}