King Cakes<\/a> are everywhere and they are delicious. I have been missing out on them for years now. Because my friend Bryan is more kind-hearted than is good for him, he spent a ridiculous amount of money to send Erika and I a surprise king cake Tuesday. It came with a variety of extras: beads, a cup, a CD of Mardi Gras music, and a t-shirt. We turned up the music, danced around the house, and ate king cake (We even re-enacted New Orleans style bead throwing from the loft). I got the baby in my first piece (thank goodness Gambino’s hasn’t pussed out like everyone else and still puts the damn thing inside the cake). Thanks, homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moving to Los Angeles over six years ago meant giving up a number of Louisiana’s finer points such as Mardi Gras. During the weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday, King Cakes are everywhere and they are delicious. I have been missing out on them for years now. Because my friend Bryan is more kind-hearted than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,131,133,132],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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