{"id":8232,"date":"2009-07-19T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T18:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8232"},"modified":"2009-07-19T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T18:44:27","slug":"first-the-twine-ball-now-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8232","title":{"rendered":"First the Twine Ball, Now This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota is not just home to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biggest_ball_of_twine\" target=\"_blank\">the world&#8217;s biggest twine ball made by a single person<\/a>; it&#8217;s now home to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/huff-wires\/20090718\/us-odd-world-s-largest-cupcake\/\" target=\"_blank\">world&#8217;s biggest cupcake<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 151-pound cupcake in Minneapolis has been certified as the world&#8217;s largest.<\/p>\n<p>The 1-foot tall, 2-foot wide cupcake on display Saturday at the Minneapolis Mall of America had 15 pounds of fudge filling and 60 pounds of yellow icing.<\/p>\n<p>Guinness World Records adjudicator Danny Girton Jr. called it a &#8220;fun and creative achievement.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In your <i>face<\/i>, Wisconsin! &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic won&#8217;t be writing anything about your state anytime soon!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/daZtLf6TceU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/daZtLf6TceU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota is not just home to the world&#8217;s biggest twine ball made by a single person; it&#8217;s now home to the world&#8217;s biggest cupcake: A 151-pound cupcake in Minneapolis has been certified as the world&#8217;s largest. The 1-foot tall, 2-foot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8232\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-blowing-miscellania-and-other-neat-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}