{"id":8556,"date":"2013-01-04T10:50:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T16:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=8556"},"modified":"2013-01-04T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:01:07","slug":"encouraging-newbies-and-baking-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=8556","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging newbies and baking cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, hey, so we finished the romance of\u00a0 &#8220;The Ballad of Dawn and One-Armed Jim,&#8221; and now Mary is trotting out a new Charterstone resident to inflict her meddle upon (and whom we&#8217;ll likely never see again).\u00a0 Mr. Dill is a retired widower with a penchant for cake decorating, and Mary has encouraged him to enter the annual Santa Royale cake-contest.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what the first prize is (maybe the opportunity to work in the Bakery at the Santa Royale Super Wal-Mart for a week), but if that&#8217;s the case the second prize is probably the opportunity to work in the Bakery at the Santa Royale Super Wal-Mart for <em>two<\/em> weeks).<\/p>\n<p>The meeting of such creative minds will no doubt be exciting&#8230;but might it become confrontational, as two sensitive blossoms try to bloom together?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8558\" title=\"New MW 2\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW-21.jpg 635w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW-21-250x84.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear me! Here&#8217;s a mash-up from a week or so ago that gives a little of Mr. Dill&#8217;s background (I don&#8217;t know why I didn&#8217;t post it.\u00a0 I was probably terribly busy getting ready for our annual New Year&#8217;s Eve party&#8230;those salmon squares don&#8217;t make themselves, you know!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8561\" title=\"New MW\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW.jpg 635w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW-250x88.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But back to <strong><em>today&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong> exciting discussion! (Because, face it, discussions with Toby are really never very exciting.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8571\" title=\"New MW 3\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW-3.jpg 750w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/New-MW-3-250x80.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, hey, so we finished the romance of\u00a0 &#8220;The Ballad of Dawn and One-Armed Jim,&#8221; and now Mary is trotting out a new Charterstone resident to inflict her meddle upon (and whom we&#8217;ll likely never see again).\u00a0 Mr. Dill is a retired widower with a penchant for cake decorating, and Mary has encouraged him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maryworth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8560,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions\/8560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}