{"id":3216,"date":"2013-11-05T15:22:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2015-01-23T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T20:30:41","slug":"the-return-of-adult-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/?p=3216","title":{"rendered":"The return of adult straw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FvJFaUp37-0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After positioning straws for children for the past decades, packaging industry as well as brands are starting to embrace the straw again as an adult drink-from solution.<\/p>\n<p>Just to throw in a healthy dose of <em>autheticity<\/em>, straws that we are seeing being used in commercials seem to be the old barber-pole \/ helix designs that resemble the wax coated kind of yesteryear, than today&#8217;s <em>tubex<\/em> plastic varieties.<\/p>\n<p>All we can say at PackageRepublic.com is, it is about time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/packagerepublic.com\/files\/straw\/HGL480.png\" width=\"480\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a92013 PackageRepublic.com. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7338556709983307\";\n\/* ArticleBanner *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0441375625\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After positioning straws for children for the past decades, packaging industry as well as brands are starting to embrace the straw again as an adult drink-from solution. Just to throw in a healthy dose of autheticity, straws that we are seeing being used in commercials seem to be the old barber-pole \/ helix designs that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,49,250],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-portion-pack","category-straw","tag-pepsi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}