{"id":218,"date":"2006-04-12T21:19:28","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T01:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/12\/the-butcher-the-baker-the-birthday-cake-maker\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T20:59:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:59:23","slug":"the-butcher-the-baker-the-birthday-cake-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/12\/the-butcher-the-baker-the-birthday-cake-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Butcher, The Baker, The Birthday Cake Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mshepherd.com\/images\/anicake.gif\" alt=\"Animated Birthday Cake\" align=\"right\"\/>I&#8217;ve always enjoyed it when my Mother makes me cake.  A fresh Mom made cake beats what you will find in the supermarket any day of the week.  For the last few years, Mom has taken to making the Birthday cakes.  You can tell she is getting better at her craft because they have grown in magnificence over the years.  Here are some samples of her work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mshepherd.com\/images\/cake1.jpg\"target=_blank>Mark told Grandma he wanted TWO cakes for his 5th Birthday.  She supplied chocolate and vanilla with a Spiderman theme!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mshepherd.com\/images\/cake2.jpg\"target=_blank>Here is a Harry Potter themed cake which she did for Erick.  You can&#8217;t see the decor too well because the lights were out but she did a nice job with Hedwig the owl and a Goblet of Fire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mshepherd.com\/images\/cake3.jpg\"target=_blank>This is her latest, and greatest in my opinion.  This one she did for Wendy&#8217;s last Birthday.  Isn&#8217;t it PURDY?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always enjoyed it when my Mother makes me cake. A fresh Mom made cake beats what you will find in the supermarket any day of the week. For the last few years, Mom has taken to making the Birthday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/12\/the-butcher-the-baker-the-birthday-cake-maker\/\">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":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}