{"id":226,"date":"2009-03-23T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2009\/03\/toys-cakes-and-boys\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T17:34:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T21:34:52","slug":"toys-cakes-and-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/toys-cakes-and-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Toys, Cakes, and Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tabblo\"><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"\/tabblo\/1725626\"><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/tabblo\/1725626\/thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Tabblo: Toys, Cakes, and Boys\" height=\"472\" width=\"472\" \/><br \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Ben&#8217;s eleventh birthday is March 24th, but we had his party on Sunday, the 22nd.&nbsp; He invited only his very best friends, and the entire party was just a big playdate, nothing planned.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Except, of course, le gateau.&nbsp; We decided to surprise Ben with a Z-Brayes cake (black-and-white stuffed zebra ornament from Grandma Shelly, a Chanukah present and now z favorite in the family.<\/p>\n<p>I had to do this cake alone, because Ned and Max were out taking Nat back to his group home, and also shopping for B&#8217;s presents.&nbsp; So needless to say, the cake was not as neat nor as well-engineered as usual.&nbsp; Still, it was eaten joyfully by all.<\/p>\n<p>For the actual birthday, I will be making One-Upcakes.&nbsp; the One-Up is a mushroom creature from Super Mario, a Nintendo video game.&nbsp; My sister knit some woolen One-Ups, which were a huge hit, and I modeled the One-Upcakes after those.&nbsp; Tomorrow Ben&#8217;s 5th grade class will consume them.<br \/> &#8230; <a href=\"\/tabblo\/1725626\">See my Tabblo><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben&#8217;s eleventh birthday is March 24th, but we had his party on Sunday, the 22nd.&nbsp; He invited only his very best friends, and the entire party was just a big playdate, nothing planned.&nbsp; Except, of course, le gateau.&nbsp; We decided to surprise Ben with a Z-Brayes cake (black-and-white stuffed zebra ornament from Grandma Shelly, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-3E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}