{"id":4494,"date":"2015-06-28T21:09:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headofstatecakes.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2015-06-28T21:09:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:09:26","slug":"candidate-cookies-bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/candidate-cookies-bernie-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate Cookies: Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/headofstatecakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/berniesanders.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-682 aligncenter pin-it\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/headofstatecakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/berniesanders-731x1024.gif?resize=550%2C770&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"berniesanders\" width=\"550\" height=\"770\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Candidate cookies are a quick look at the men and women who aspire to be President of the United States 2017-2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders&#8217; cookie begins with chocolate chips. After all, chocolate chips are pretty classic and Sanders&#8217; history includes a classic immigration story. His father had immigrated to the United States from Poland, and much of his family had been killed in the Holocaust. His grandparents were also Jewish immigrants.&nbsp;His cookie contains dried blueberries, which are a nod to the <a title=\"Vermont Blueberry Festival\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vermontblueberry.com\/\">northeast<\/a>, where he&#8217;s been for most of his life. Sanders&nbsp;was born in New York, and has been a politician in Vermont over the last several decades. The sunflower seeds in his cookie are a nod to his work as a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Sunflowers are named after the sun, and this particular committee, among other things, deals with proposed legislation pertaining to solar energy.<\/p>\n<p>For substantive information about Bernie Sanders, you might take a peek at his <a title=\"Bernie Sanders Campaign website\" href=\"https:\/\/berniesanders.com\/\">campaign website<\/a>, or at his <a title=\"Bernie Sanders Project Votesmart\" href=\"https:\/\/votesmart.org\/candidate\/27110\/bernie-sanders#.VZCT3flViko\">Project Votesmart <\/a>profile page. The <a title=\"Wiki page Bernie Sanders\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernie_Sanders_presidential_campaign,_2016\">campaign Wikipedia page<\/a> will lead you to some articles and other resources if you scroll down to the bottom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Candidate cookies are a quick look at the men and women who aspire to be President of the United States 2017-2020. Bernie Sanders&#8217; cookie begins with chocolate chips. After all, chocolate chips are pretty classic and Sanders&#8217; history includes a classic immigration story. His father had immigrated to the United States from Poland, and <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/headofstatecakes.com\/candidate-cookies-bernie-sanders\/\"><br \/>&#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[16],"tags":[628],"class_list":["post-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","tag-head-of-state-cakes","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-1au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4730,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/candidate-cookies-hillary-clinton\/","url_meta":{"origin":4494,"position":0},"title":"Candidate Cookies: Hillary Clinton","author":"admin","date":"March 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Candidate cookies are a quick look at the men and women who aspire to be President of the United States 2017-2020. 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