{"id":1324,"date":"2022-02-09T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T20:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2022-02-16T11:14:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:14:38","slug":"adam-dickens-07-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/2022\/02\/09\/adam-dickens-07-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Dickens &#8217;07"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Adam Dickens \u201907 <\/strong>is the owner of Dickens Candles, a company he founded in 2016 that produces sustainable, handmade candles. Founded while Adam was working full-time as a marketing manager, the company grew and Adam made the leap from his marketing job to become a full-time entrepreneur, candle maker and dad. Based in Elmhurst, Illinois, Dickens Candles\u00a0are hand-poured candles in upcycled bottles. With an emphasis on sustainability, the candles are made with 100% renewable American-grown soy wax and cotton wicks, and then shipped in reused packaging paper with biodegradable packing peanuts and plant-based tape. Dickens Candles, which are sold in independent shops and in an online storefront (DickensCandles.com), were featured recently on Chicago\u2019s WGN Radio.\u00a0You can find the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dickenscandles.com\/post\/dickens-candles-featured-on-wgn-radio\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dickenscandles.com\/post\/dickens-candles-featured-on-wgn-radio\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dickenscandles.com\/post\/dickens-candles-featured-in-wgn-radio-s-elmhurst-hometown-video\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dickenscandles.com\/post\/dickens-candles-featured-in-wgn-radio-s-elmhurst-hometown-video\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Dickens \u201907 is the owner of Dickens Candles, a company he founded in 2016 that produces sustainable, handmade candles. Founded while Adam was working full-time as a marketing manager, the company grew and Adam made the leap from his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/2022\/02\/09\/adam-dickens-07-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-page"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}