{"id":1687,"date":"2008-05-22T09:27:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T13:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/05\/22\/let-them-eat-cake\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T13:27:56","slug":"let-them-eat-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/05\/22\/let-them-eat-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There couldn&#8217;t be a more appropriate headline for today&#8217;s blog post. Last night, in an early celebration of my birthday, I went out to dinner with Randy and some friends at Amelia&#8217;s in Teele Square. Following dinner, we came back to our place, played some Wii, and ate a cake Randy baked for me. We took photos, but I forgot to bring them to post here. D&#8217;oh!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, at one point, somebody said something that prompted Pete to say &#8220;aw, let him eat cake&#8221; (it was probably me advising Randy not to have a second slice). Of course, that immediately reminded me of Marie Antoinette saying &#8220;Let them eat cake.&#8221; And where did that happen? In France! And where will I be in less than 24 hours? France!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like six degrees of separation but without Will Smith (or Kevin Bacon).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Bacon, I had some on my salad last night. And Kevin Bacon was also on the Will &amp; Grace episode I watched on the DVR before going to dinner. See how this all works? That was only one degree of separation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There couldn&#8217;t be a more appropriate headline for today&#8217;s blog post. Last night, in an early celebration of my birthday, I went out to dinner with Randy and some friends at Amelia&#8217;s in Teele Square. Following dinner, we came back to our place, played some Wii, and ate a cake Randy baked for me. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}