{"id":234,"date":"2006-07-31T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=234"},"modified":"2006-07-31T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T04:04:00","slug":"meat-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Meat Cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this idea on <a HREF=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/food_porn\/2688758.html\" target=liveJournal\">LJ<\/a> today, as well as <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/53424\" target=metaFilter\">MetaFilter<\/a>. The mood struck me just right, so I had to try it myself.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting, meat cake!<\/p>\n<p>Two rounds of meatloaf, with a layer of sauce between, iced with mashed potatoes. I brought it to the table with a small speech about &#8220;Life is short, eat dessert first.&#8221; I had hoped my attempts at fancy cake decorating would distract them, but as I had predicted, Melody immediately leapt in with &#8220;That&#8217;s potatoes!&#8221; Oh well, even without the surprise, it was still well worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/brauhze\/MeatCake\/photo#5137313083305912034\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.google.com\/brauhze\/R0tnB9ZqZuI\/AAAAAAAAAZU\/TgHs7iDmkdM\/s400\/meatcake1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/brauhze\/MeatCake\/photo#5137313079010944722\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.google.com\/brauhze\/R0tnBtZqZtI\/AAAAAAAAAZM\/HdefCuwnzKA\/s400\/meatcake2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/brauhze\/MeatCake\/photo#5137313074715977410\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.google.com\/brauhze\/R0tnBdZqZsI\/AAAAAAAAAZE\/bA2-qPLrF0M\/s400\/meatcake3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this idea on MetaFilter. The mood struck me just right, so I had to try it myself. Presenting, meat cake! Two rounds of meatloaf, with a layer of&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=234\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}