{"id":22746,"date":"2019-12-27T01:25:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T09:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=22746"},"modified":"2019-12-16T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:28:52","slug":"this-fruitcake-is-141-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2019\/12\/27\/this-fruitcake-is-141-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"This fruitcake is 141 years old!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A family in Michigan has been holding onto a strange heirloom since 1878&#8230; a FRUITCAKE!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/f4b2154b1fd95830ef3c1e7d0b2ab5f6\"><em>APnews<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great thing,\u201d said Julie Ruttinger, the great great granddaughter of Fidelia Ford, who baked the cake in 1878. \u201cIt was tradition. It\u2019s a legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cake was initially preserved to honor Ford. She established a tradition of baking the cake and letting it age for a year before serving it during holiday seasons. Ford died at age 65 before her 1878 cake could be eaten, and by the time the holidays arrived, the family considered her handiwork a legacy, not food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>This is what it looks like!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22747\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruitcake-old.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruitcake-old.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruitcake-old-640x360.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruitcake-old-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/>\n<p><strong>All I have to say is&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Pronounce yuch - American English\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ELCAdpvZOS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22751\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuck-to-fruitcake.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>photo by\u00a0David Guralnick\/Detroit News via AP<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks, Victoria!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family in Michigan has been holding onto a strange heirloom since 1878&#8230; a FRUITCAKE!!!! APnews: \u201cIt\u2019s a great thing,\u201d said Julie Ruttinger, the great great granddaughter of Fidelia Ford, who baked the cake in 1878. \u201cIt was tradition. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22754,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22746\/revisions\/22754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}