{"id":1782,"date":"2010-05-31T00:47:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T04:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2011-02-14T17:55:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T21:55:36","slug":"birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MyCake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1783\" title=\"MyCake\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MyCake.jpg\" alt=\"MyCake\" width=\"455\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MyCake.jpg 650w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MyCake-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MyCake-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My first job out of college was as a graphic designer at a studio in Arlington, Virginia. On my lunch hour I liked to carry a sandwich and wander the small side streets of Clarendon, which is now practically unrecognizable with its spiffy high-rises, marble-and-stainless-steel condo lofts, and hot night spots. Back then it was an edgy, scruffy (and to me far more interesting) neighborhood of funky, dimly lit antique stores, second-hand bookshops, and family-owned Vietnamese groceries.<\/p>\n<p>In a Vietnamese bakery one day I discovered among the unfamiliar and brightly colored sweets a collection of odd plastic toys meant for&#8230;cake decorating? Well, I don\u2019t know, but I bought a bunch of them, and our family has made use of them for years, on birthdays and other occasions. One of them is a rather confused-looking Girl Scout in a semi-seductive pose that my husband likes to put on my cake. Hmm. I don\u2019t know what THAT means.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CakeChocCurls22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1788\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeChocCurls2\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CakeChocCurls22.png\" alt=\"CakeChocCurls2\" width=\"125\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>Sheila<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CakeDaisies1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1789\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeDaisies\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CakeDaisies1.png\" alt=\"CakeDaisies\" width=\"125\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>Dorothy<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'ITC Galliard', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first job out of college was as a graphic designer at a studio in Arlington, Virginia. On my lunch hour I liked to carry a sandwich and wander the small side streets of Clarendon, which is now practically unrecognizable with its spiffy high-rises, marble-and-stainless-steel condo lofts, and hot night spots. Back then it was<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1782\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}