{"id":698,"date":"2012-02-24T22:23:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T04:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/?p=698"},"modified":"2012-02-24T23:06:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T05:06:14","slug":"blackie-delivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/02\/24\/blackie-delivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackie Delivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more wonderful friends from the old country (i.e., Way Back When) had birthdays today. Not wanting to let this special occasion go unmarked, Blackie got up extra early to make them each a cake.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-699\" title=\"Happy Birthday Rebecca\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hbreb-640.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Birthday Rebecca\" width=\"640\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hbreb-640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hbreb-640-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a decent cook myself, but not much of a baker. So I\u2019m in awe of Blackie\u2019s skills as a pastry chef\u2014especially the way he gets his sugar roses \u2018just so.\u2019 (Don\u2019t they look nice?)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-704\" title=\"Happy Birthday Bob\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hbbob2-640.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Birthday Bob\" width=\"640\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hbbob2-640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hbbob2-640-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But even more impressive to me is how he could deliver one cake to NYC before breakfast, the other to Minnesota, and still be home in time to help dig out from last night\u2019s snow. (My hunch is, some Dobby-esque\u00a0<a title=\"Definition of Apparation on Wikipedia - New Window Opens\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apparate#Apparition_and_Disapparition\" target=\"_blank\">apparition<\/a> skills were involved\u2014especially given that we were snowbound until lunchtime.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dad, these Before &amp; After photos of our driveway are especially for you, as you savor your last few days in balmy Mexico. I know you must miss us all, but aren\u2019t you glad you\u2019re not here?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-705\" title=\"Before and After Snow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/snow_640.jpg\" alt=\"Before and After Snow\" width=\"640\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/snow_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/snow_640-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more wonderful friends from the old country (i.e., Way Back When) had birthdays today. Not wanting to let this special occasion go unmarked, Blackie got up extra early to make them each a cake. I\u2019m a decent cook myself, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/02\/24\/blackie-delivers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[121,82,124,561,122,123],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackie","category-cats-and-mice","tag-bob","tag-cake","tag-dobby-the-free-elf","tag-happy-birthday","tag-peacock","tag-rebecca"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}