{"id":1477,"date":"2010-01-19T10:06:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T09:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2010-01-19T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T09:06:48","slug":"a-glass-and-a-half-of-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/a-glass-and-a-half-of-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"A glass and a half of loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been one of the greatest British brands for 186 Years.  John Cadbury went from selling a hot chocolate drinks and turned it into a chocolate empire.  Today the money men have given into greed and sold out to the cheese maker Kraft.<br \/>\nLets just hope they don\u2019t mess about with John\u2019s chocolate genius and go all American on us.<br \/>\nI thought I would mark the passing of the end of a British institution; with a reminder of one of the reasons almost everybody in the UK loves Cadbury and it\u2019s not just the chocolate:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lEml3Bufgko&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been one of the greatest British brands for 186 Years. John Cadbury went from selling a hot chocolate drinks and turned it into a chocolate empire. Today the money men have given into greed and sold out to the cheese maker Kraft. Lets just hope they don\u2019t mess about with John\u2019s chocolate genius and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/a-glass-and-a-half-of-loss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A glass and a half of loss<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[91,233,394],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","tag-cadbury","tag-kraft","tag-smlp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}