{"id":59173,"date":"2025-08-10T13:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59173\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T13:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:15:06","slug":"25-good-things-that-were-ruined-by-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59173\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Good Things That Were Ruined By Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      16.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;The entire sports card hobby. Well, what used to be. It&#8217;s not really a hobby now. A bunch of people are trying to &#8216;chase&#8217; cards, but the real and actual hobbyist will never &#8216;pull&#8217; the card. MLB and MLBPA killed what with giving Fanatics exclusivity rights. Topps had to sell out to them or die. Fanatics has turned the hobby into a joke!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Too many 1-of-1 cards, too many supposed new releases, and too pricey for their own good! Don&#8217;t get me started on the breakers! Collecting cards as a fun, friendly, and inexpensive hobby is dead!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Anonymous, 47, Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"16. &#8220;The entire sports card hobby. Well, what used to be. It&#8217;s not really a hobby now. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,4052,8433,22787,9015],"class_list":{"0":"post-59173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-evergreen","12":"tag-flipped","13":"tag-foodfb","14":"tag-geekyfb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}