{"id":2,"date":"2009-01-04T13:09:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T21:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2015-07-27T13:26:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T21:26:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you wonder&#8230; the title of this blog (and now site) came from an old joke between my <a href=\"http:\/\/ontheotherfoot.blogspot.com\">Charming and Patient Husband<\/a> and a friend of his, back when we were still dating. He told his friend that I was a Secular Carmelite, and the friend henceforth referred to me as Joel&#8217;s &#8220;Hot Carmel Sundae.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Never one to let a good joke slip by, I adopted it. Now definitively professed since December 20, 2008, I finally feel entitled to the name, and to have a site using the name.<\/p>\n<p>I am a wife of 12\u00c2\u00a0years, a mother of 8, a &#8220;cradle Catholic,&#8221; and a hapless practical joker. \u00c2\u00a0More recently, I am an art-crazed madwoman who spends her days inflicting her scratchings on a helpless family. Pity them; they need you to share the burden of my ramblings. I am also just egotistical enough to love comments, so I needed a blog to get them. Comment away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you wonder&#8230; the title of this blog (and now site) came from an old joke between my Charming and Patient Husband and a friend of his, back when we were still dating. He told his friend that I was a Secular Carmelite, and the friend henceforth referred to me as Joel&#8217;s &#8220;Hot Carmel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}