{"id":5992,"date":"2010-06-27T18:58:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T22:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2011-12-13T17:38:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:38:10","slug":"cake-or-death-ill-have-the-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/cake-or-death-ill-have-the-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Cake or Death? I&#8217;ll Have the Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, when I was <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/on-the-town-celebrating-sex-and-the-city-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">celebrating<\/a> the appearance of my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/jewels-of-the-month-cleopatra-earrings-and-necklace\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cleopatra earrings<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/sex-and-the-international-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sex and the City 2<\/a>, gorgeous blogger Stacy of <a href=\"http:\/\/taffetadarlings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">taffetadarlings<\/a> gave me this congratulatory cake from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twolittleredhens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two Little Red Hens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5993\" title=\"cake\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cake.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cake-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe cake was gone within 24 hours, but comedian Eddie Izzard&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BNjcuZ-LiSY\" target=\"_blank\">Cake or death<\/a>?&#8221; routine has been stuck in my head ever since. It&#8217;s like having a song on mental repeat, but funnier. The sketch is especially highlarious when animated with Legos. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rZVjKlBCvhg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rZVjKlBCvhg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You should also check out the Lego version of Eddie Izzard&#8217;s routine about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw\" target=\"_blank\">Darth Vader trying to order pasta in the Death Star canteen<\/a>. My favorite line is about the wet trays: &#8220;Did you dry these in a rainforest?&#8221; <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, when I was celebrating the appearance of my Cleopatra earrings in Sex and the City 2, gorgeous blogger Stacy of taffetadarlings gave me this congratulatory cake from Two Little Red Hens. The cake was gone within 24 hours, but comedian Eddie Izzard&#8217;s &#8220;Cake or death?&#8221; routine has been stuck in my head ever&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/cake-or-death-ill-have-the-chicken\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[508],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-humor","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}