{"id":600,"date":"2008-02-18T07:34:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T11:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2008-02-11T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T18:27:11","slug":"our-kind-of-baby-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Our Kind of Baby Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/aliencake.thumbnail.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Alien Cake' \/>Sherri, a &#8220;food geek&#8221; with a &#8220;morbid sense of humor&#8221; was having a baby, so she designed her baby shower cake to feature the chestburster from <I>Alien<\/I>.  Based on this sentence alone, I believe that Sherri is my new best friend.<\/p>\n<p>The monster was sculpted out of marzipan and garnished with blood-colored syrup.  The cake was red velvet, natch.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.greatwhitesnark.com\/2007\/12\/11\/geeky-cake-of-the-week-alien-chest-burster-baby-shower-cake\/\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/geekparenting.com\/\">Geek Parenting<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n<p>Bonus link: <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594741611?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20\">Sci-Fi Baby Names: 500 Out-of-This-World Baby Names from Anakin to Zardoz<\/A>.  I assume this book comes with handy forms for Child Protective Services, should you elect to name your baby Zardoz.<\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, despite the recent baby-themed posts, let me assure everyone that I am <EM>not<\/EM> parasitized.  Pregnancy is fine and all, but at the end of it you wind up with a <EM>baby<\/EM>, of all things.  Forget <EM>that<\/EM> noise!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherri, a &#8220;food geek&#8221; with a &#8220;morbid sense of humor&#8221; was having a baby, so she designed her baby shower cake to feature the chestburster from Alien. Based on this sentence alone, I believe that Sherri is my new best friend. The monster was sculpted out of marzipan and garnished with blood-colored syrup. The cake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}