{"id":63357,"date":"2023-07-24T09:25:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/?p=63357"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:32:59","slug":"what-are-parallel-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/what-are-parallel-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Parallel Cards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hero-container hero-video-container hero-video-container-direct video-container loop\" id=\"hero-video-container\">\n  <button class=\"video-button\" id=\"hero-video-button\">Play Video<\/button>\n  <video src=\"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/videos\/Parallels-Topps-Trading-Cards.mp4\" preload=\"auto\" type=\"video\/mp4\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" id=\"hero-video-block_af5ef8add912305aee73601154376976\" poster=\"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/parallel-poster.jpg\" loop>\n  <\/video>\n<\/div>\n\n<script>\n\n  jQuery(function($){\n    \/\/ Video Play Button Overlay\n    $('.hero-video-container-direct .video-button, .hero-video-container-direct video').click(function(){\n        if ($('.video-button').hasClass(\"active\")){\n            $('video#hero-video-block_af5ef8add912305aee73601154376976').trigger('pause');\n        } else {\n            $('video#hero-video-block_af5ef8add912305aee73601154376976').trigger('play');\n        }\n    });\n\n    $(\"#hero-video-block_af5ef8add912305aee73601154376976\").on(\"pause\", function (e) {\n      $('.video-button').html(\"Play Video\");\n      $('.video-button').removeClass(\"active\");\n      $('video#hero-video-block_af5ef8add912305aee73601154376976').attr(\"controls\", false);\n    });\n    $(\"#hero-video-block_af5ef8add912305aee73601154376976\").on(\"play\", function (e) {\n      $('.video-button').html(\"Pause Video\");\n      $('.video-button').addClass(\"active\");\n      $('video#hero-video-block_af5ef8add912305aee73601154376976').attr(\"controls\", true);\n    });\n  });\n\n<\/script>\n\n<p>Most trading card products have a <a href=\"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/definition\/base-card\/\">base set<\/a>, made up of <a href=\"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/definition\/common-card-commons\/\">common cards<\/a>, and then a smaller number of more-limited <a href=\"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/definition\/parallel\/\">parallel<\/a> cards. These cards essentially &#8220;run parallel&#8221; to the base set \u2013 they have a similar look and design, but are distinguished by a unique physical quality. This distinguishing quality can be in the form of border color, texture, pattern, <a href=\"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/definition\/card-stock\/\">card material<\/a>, image variation, or the printing technology employed.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Collect Parallel Cards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":63359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8833,8837],"tags":[8842,8865],"class_list":["post-63357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to-collect-uk","category-video-uk","tag-education-uk","tag-how-to-collect-uk"],"acf":{"color_theme":"rgba(255,80,119,1)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}