{"id":2301,"date":"2013-03-24T15:08:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T20:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headofstatecakes.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2013-03-24T15:08:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T20:08:27","slug":"welcome-to-head-of-state-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/welcome-to-head-of-state-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Head of State Cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/headofstatecakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/presidential-seal.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20 aligncenter\" alt=\"presidential-seal\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/headofstatecakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/presidential-seal-300x300.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This page will be a playground where I combine my love for baking with my love for the US presidents.<\/p>\n<p>For more specifics about what this means, check out my <a title=\"Head of State Cakes about page\" href=\"https:\/\/headofstatecakes.com\/?page_id=13\" >about page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meanwhile, I leave you to imagine what my cupcake tribute to George Washington looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page will be a playground where I combine my love for baking with my love for the US presidents.<br \/>\nFor more specifics about what this means, check out my about page.<br \/>\nIn the meanwhile, I leave you to imagine what my cupcake tribute to George Washing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-about","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-B7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3927,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-dynamo\/","url_meta":{"origin":2301,"position":0},"title":"The Dynamo","author":"admin","date":"October 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Lyndon Johnson is my longstanding presidential crush (not to be mistaken for who I see as the most handsome of the presidents.) 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