{"id":9509,"date":"2011-06-18T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=9509"},"modified":"2011-06-20T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:09:16","slug":"9509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=9509","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bovarywedding1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9572\" title=\"bovarywedding\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bovarywedding1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pies and cakes had been ordered from a caterer in Yvetot. Since he was starting up in the district, he had gone to considerable pains: and when dessert time came he himself brought to the table a wedding cake that drew exclamations from all. Its base was a square of blue cardboard representing a temple with porticos and colonnades and adorned on all sides with stucco statuettes standing in niches spangled with gold paper stars. The second tier was a medieval castlegateau de Savoie, surrounded by miniature fortifications of angelica, almonds, raisins, and orange sections. And finally, on the topmost layer &#8211; which was a green meadow, with rocks, jelly lakes, and boats of hazelnut shells &#8211; a\u00a0little Cupid was swinging in a chocolate swing. The tips of two uprights, the highest points of the whole, were two real rose buds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>From &#8216;Madame Bovary&#8217; &#8211; The first published novel by Gustave Flaubert. Serialized in 1856. Published in book form &#8211; 1857.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The pies and cakes had been ordered from a caterer in Yvetot. Since he was starting up in the district, he had gone to considerable pains: and when dessert time came he himself brought to the table a wedding cake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=9509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[886,884,885],"class_list":["post-9509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emma-bovary-wedding-cake","tag-madame-bovary-wedding","tag-madame-bovary-wedding-cake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10325,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions\/10325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}