{"id":63,"date":"2005-12-22T15:48:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T23:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/?p=63"},"modified":"2007-10-25T17:41:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T00:41:58","slug":"shallow-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/2005\/12\/22\/shallow-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"shallow grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pukeycolors.com\" target=\"_blank\">Alyssa&#8217;s<\/a> birthday party this year was a CSI themed birthday party. I made some CSI technician badges with people&#8217;s pictures on them and gave them titles such as &#8220;CSI Level 3&#8221; and &#8220;DNA Technician&#8221;. The badges were pretty cute, I thought. I used mostly silly pictures for the photos. <\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theplainjane.com\/crafty\/images\/csi-badge.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI also made a shallow grave cake for the occasion. I got a box of glow in the dark bones from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcphee.com\/items\/09894.html\" target=\"_blank\">Archie McPhee<\/a>. It was actually a puzzle. I didn&#8217;t need or want to use all the parts. The rib cage was too large for the cake, so I cut it in half and used the front portion.  I also only used the top portion of the skull. For the cake, I used a white cake mix which I dyed red (to make it really red you have to use a ton of food coloring &#8211; I used a whole jar of powdered red coloring). I covered it in chocolate frosting and used crushed oreos on top for the dirt. I put the skeleton down first and then sprinkled the &#8220;dirt&#8221; on.\n<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theplainjane.com\/crafty\/cakes\/shallow-grave.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMmm, tasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyssa&#8217;s birthday party this year was a CSI themed birthday party. I made some CSI technician badges with people&#8217;s pictures on them and gave them titles such as &#8220;CSI Level 3&#8221; and &#8220;DNA Technician&#8221;. The badges were pretty cute, I thought. I used mostly silly pictures for the photos. I also made a shallow grave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","category-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}