{"id":220,"date":"2007-12-03T23:18:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T06:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/2007\/12\/03\/theres-no-basement-in-the-alamo\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T23:18:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T06:18:39","slug":"theres-no-basement-in-the-alamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/2007\/12\/03\/theres-no-basement-in-the-alamo\/","title":{"rendered":"there&#8217;s no basement in the alamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pukeycolors.com\" target=\"_blank\">alyssa<\/a> celebrated another year of life this weekend, thanks to us, and a &#8220;pee wee&#8217;s big adventure&#8221; themed party. i contributed the alamo made out of cardboard and a red bow tie cake. i could have been a little cleaner with my cake and not gotten food coloring and frosting all over the cake board, but oh well. it was a yellow cake with raspberry filling and this year i opted to get a spray can of red food coloring and paint the cake red rather than mix the vanilla frosting with a whole bottle of red. i&#8217;ve learned from the past &#8211; if you want it to be actually red, you have to use a lot of red food coloring. no joke. otherwise it&#8217;s some shade of pink and you wonder where you went wrong. lesson learned. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theplainjane.com\/crafty\/images\/the_alamo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theplainjane.com\/crafty\/cakes\/red_bow_tie_cake.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>i have other things to talk about, mostly for <a href=\"http:\/\/food.theplainjane.com\" target=\"_blank\">our food blog<\/a> which i really hope to post this week since i have been slacking on it. i&#8217;ll be writing a few restaurant reviews and talking about our deep fry party. you should try a deep fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich, i swear. but that&#8217;s it. one thing at a time, trust me on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>alyssa celebrated another year of life this weekend, thanks to us, and a &#8220;pee wee&#8217;s big adventure&#8221; themed party. i contributed the alamo made out of cardboard and a red bow tie cake. i could have been a little cleaner with my cake and not gotten food coloring and frosting all over the cake board, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","category-other-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}