{"id":23058,"date":"2013-03-03T18:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=23058"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:51:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:51:35","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-sweetheart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-sweetheart\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: How old is your sweetheart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/love-carries-all-zlatka-paneva?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/21746_love_carries_all-564x564.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Love Carries All | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"548\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/21746_love_carries_all-564x564.jpg 564w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/21746_love_carries_all-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/21746_love_carries_all-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/21746_love_carries_all-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That sweet, heart-shaped candy you&#8217;re about to pop in your mouth has a history that dates back over a hundred-and-fifty years. In 1847, an English immigrant named Oliver Chase invented a press that cut out candy discs called &#8220;hub wafers.&#8221; Not to be outdone, Chase&#8217;s brother Daniel invented a machine that stamped messages directly onto the candy. Initially, the younger Chase&#8217;s conversational confections were cut into &#8220;cockles&#8221;\u2014a scalloped shell shape that was large enough for a brief message. His company went on to produce candies in the form of horseshoes, baseballs and more, until finally, in 1901, the now-familiar heart shape appeared. It has been sweetening Valentine&#8217;s Days ever since.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/love-carries-all-zlatka-paneva?source=blog\" title=\"Love Carries All\" target=\"_blank\">Love Carries All-Zlatka Paneva, $68-$150<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Be mine&#8221; just means more when it&#8217;s stamped in a sugary treat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":23066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}