{"id":286,"date":"2014-09-09T14:44:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T18:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/newsroom\/?post_type=fdoc-news-item&amp;p=286"},"modified":"2014-09-09T14:44:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T18:44:34","slug":"in-the-news-oj-a-hot-commodity-on-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"fdoc-news-item","link":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/fdoc-news-item\/in-the-news-oj-a-hot-commodity-on-capitol-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news: OJ a hot commodity on Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Capitol Hill, Florida Orange Juice is a hot commodity in a black market fueled by snacks,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/09\/congressional-staffers-snack-trade-110692.html#ixzz3CqN3TZvp\">Politico<\/a>\u00a0reports. Offices of senators and representatives often stockpile\u00a0home-state snacks, donated by food and beverage companies, to be shared with visitors. But, often, it\u2019s the congressional staffers who are pilfering the goods in order to get things done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The covert snack economy is not just a way for hungry staffers to seek out chocolate-covered macadamia nuts from Hawaii or Lay\u2019s chips from Texas. It\u2019s a system for aides, especially low on the totem pole, to make friends, forge informal alliances and, ultimately, help keep Capitol Hill functioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the best items for trading, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/09\/congressional-staffers-snack-trade-110692.html#ixzz3CqN3TZvp\">Politico<\/a>: Florida Orange Juice, which can garner as many as five bags of potato chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz each feature\u00a0Florida Orange Juice in their office lobbies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the snack black market at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/09\/congressional-staffers-snack-trade-110692.html#ixzz3CqN3TZvp\">Politico.com<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Capitol Hill, Florida Orange Juice is a hot commodity in a black market fueled by snacks,\u00a0Politico\u00a0reports. Offices of senators and representatives often stockpile\u00a0home-state snacks, donated by food and beverage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","fdoc_news_item_category":[80,100],"fdoc_citrus_type":[108],"fdoc_health_category":[],"class_list":["post-286","fdoc-news-item","type-fdoc-news-item","status-publish","hentry","fdoc_news_item_category-fdoc","fdoc_news_item_category-industry","fdoc_citrus_type-orange-juice"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fdoc-news-item"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fdoc_news_item_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_news_item_category?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_citrus_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_citrus_type?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_health_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_health_category?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}