{"id":12599,"date":"2018-01-28T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T20:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2018-01-29T15:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:02:40","slug":"baking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=12599","title":{"rendered":"Baking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1168-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1168-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1168.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday was chocolate cake day, so I overcame my preferred state of laziness and made a double batch of gluten free chocolate cake.<\/p><p>Although I&#8217;d put two quarters of butter on the counter in the morning, I hadn&#8217;t taken account that they&#8217;d been frozen.  That made the butter extremely difficult to work with.  I cut out parchment paper for the cake pans, which was also was hard on my hands.  Poor me.<\/p><p>The cake layers turned out great, though, and I made frosting this morning.<\/p><p>Yesterday we had reasonably pleasant temperatures although it was quite windy.  Ron installed more gutter guards and I raked up piles of ornamental grass fronds, which I threw over the strawberries and rhubarb for now.  Raining today, and we may get some snow tomorrow.<\/p><p>We had cheese Chenglish muffin sandwiches and salad for lunch.<\/p><p>I made a vegetable chili today with corn, tomatoes, beans, squash, carrots and spinach.  We were through with chores, including the transfer station run, by about 3.<\/p><p>I&#8217;m still fighting whatever it is in my right eye, although not feeling as tired as I was a week ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was chocolate cake day, so I overcame my preferred state of laziness and made a double batch of gluten free chocolate cake.Although I&#8217;d put two quarters of butter on the counter in the morning, I hadn&#8217;t taken account that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=12599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12603,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions\/12603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}