{"id":3341,"date":"2021-09-03T08:27:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2021-09-03T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:28:12","slug":"because-the-world-is-more-than-episodes-of-ted-lasso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3341","title":{"rendered":"Because the world is more than episodes of Ted Lasso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New family obsession in the O&#8217;Connell household is\u00a0<em>Bake Squad<\/em>, Netflix original series hosted by Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi. It&#8217;s basically Milk Bar on TV, and manages to entertain all three (very different) members of the O&#8217;Connell clan.<\/p>\n<p>What I like most about\u00a0<em>Bake Squad<\/em> is that it&#8217;s not really a contest. (Wikipedia calls it &#8220;lightly competitive.&#8221;) There&#8217;s no prizes or immunities or elimination rounds, just awesome bakers doing awesome things. Kind of a cross between\u00a0<em>Cake Boss<\/em> and Saturday morning cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix dropped eight episodes a few weeks ago and we&#8217;ve nearly completed the season. The episode we watched (together!) last night featured a cake for a &#8220;royal winter wonderland&#8221; wedding. Cristophe and Maya-Camille put together a &#8220;throne room scene consisting of orange soda cakes with cranberry filling shaped as crown pillows, orange custard tarts, and decorative sugar showpiece.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yup, that just about describes it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New family obsession in the O&#8217;Connell household is\u00a0Bake Squad, Netflix original series hosted by Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi. It&#8217;s basically Milk Bar on TV, and manages to entertain all three (very different) members of the O&#8217;Connell clan. What I &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3341\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}