{"id":2039,"date":"2002-10-28T00:53:34","date_gmt":"2002-10-28T00:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2002-10-28T00:53:34","modified_gmt":"2002-10-28T00:53:34","slug":"for_those_times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"For those times when you forget the candles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone&#8217;s come up with a somewhat interesting<a href=\"http:\/\/hoovnews.hoovers.com\/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&#038;doc_id=NR20021026670.2_6d5500053dd32c8b\">new idea for cakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Do you believe a birthday cake without the candles can create the same atmosphere? Biotechnology researchers in Taiwan think the luminescent cake they have developed can do so and believe that such a cake has market potential.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>At a biotechnology development and planning forum held yesterday at Fu Jen Catholic University in Hsinchuang, Taipei County, a biotech company put several such birthday and wedding cakes on display, attracting overwhelming media attention and publicity.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The cakes &#8211; the first of their kind in Taiwan &#8211; have a beautiful luminescence because of their cream coating which contains a special protein acquired with the latest biotechnology from Taiwan&#8217;s endemic red algae. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<p>I dunno about you, but I find this slightly disturbing.  I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d be comfortable eating a glowing cake. I mean, if I eat this will <em>I<\/em> glow too? (seen first over on <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">boing boing<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone&#8217;s come up with a somewhat interestingnew idea for cakes. Do you believe a birthday cake without the candles can create the same atmosphere? Biotechnology researchers in Taiwan think the luminescent cake they have developed can do so and believe that such a cake has market potential. At a biotechnology development and planning forum held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}