{"id":11902,"date":"2020-02-27T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11902"},"modified":"2020-02-26T00:55:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:55:57","slug":"boxed-out-or-going-topless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/boxed-out-or-going-topless\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxed Out (or, Going Topless)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11903\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/caseysboxtops.jpg\" width=\"591\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/caseysboxtops.jpg 591w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/caseysboxtops-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reminder: Dig up all those Casey&#8217;s pizza box tops you can find, because <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/caseys-pushes-pizza-into-the-smart-phone-era\/\"><del>this weekend<\/del> they&#8217;re going away forever<\/a>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/time-running-out-to-turn-in-caseys-pizza-box-tabs\/31081770\">Story: KCCI<\/a>.) Here&#8217;s my collection, which also shows a clip of the multiple changes in boxes over the past five years or so. Notice the stamps on the back, a security device to stop you from just slapping a copy of the front on a piece of cardboard.<\/p>\n<p>We all know that giving our information to Casey&#8217;s (and Kum &amp; Go, and Kwik Star\/Kwik Trip) is just a scheme to harvest our data and garner customer loyalty through targeted advertising, right?<\/p>\n<p>[\/enters phone number at checkout anyway]<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> says Casey&#8217;s has extended its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/local\/des-moines\/2020\/02\/25\/caseys-pizza-box-top-program-deadline-extended\/4868927002\/\">box-top cash-in program<\/a> until the end of June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reminder: Dig up all those Casey&#8217;s pizza box tops you can find, because this weekend they&#8217;re going away forever. (Story: KCCI.) Here&#8217;s my collection, which also shows a clip of the multiple changes in boxes over the past five years &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/boxed-out-or-going-topless\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11922,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions\/11922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}