{"id":16600,"date":"2022-12-27T22:13:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16600"},"modified":"2023-01-02T22:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T21:28:37","slug":"daily_2883_-_gingerbread_houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/12\/27\/daily_2883_-_gingerbread_houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2883 &#8211; gingerbread houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2883_gingerbread_houses_4.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nThe annual gingerbread house competition and exhibition at the Museum of Architecture and Design.<\/p>\n<p>The competition, open to anyone, has a different theme every year. This year&#8217;s theme was &#8220;Around the corner&#8221;, and the contestants had interpreted it in every possible way: some very literal, some more figurative, and some had probably shoehorned whatever they had built into the theme after the fact. There were a lot of labyrinths (with lots of corners) and houses with round corners or no corners. For some reason there were several houses built around the four seasons (maybe because houses tend to have four corners?)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2883_gingerbread_houses_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nThe competition is divided into three categories: experts (architects, designers and bakers); under 12; and everyone else. This year many of the most interesting and impressive contributions came from the &#8220;everyone else&#8221; group. The winner of the expert category was, in fact, strikingly bland and boring. (I didn&#8217;t even waste a photo on it.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2883_gingerbread_houses_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2883_gingerbread_houses_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nIn recent years, I&#8217;ve noticed works on the theme of how we&#8217;re destroying nature, how we need to be kinder to the Earth, and how a more sustainable future is just around the corner. I wonder if the share of works on this topic is on an upward trend.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2883_gingerbread_houses_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual gingerbread house competition and exhibition at the Museum of Architecture and Design. The competition, open to anyone, has a different theme every year. This year&#8217;s theme was &#8220;Around the corner&#8221;, and the contestants had interpreted it in every possible way: some very literal, some more figurative, and some had probably shoehorned whatever they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,6,18,775,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-art_entertainment","category-dailies","category-eric","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16600"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16606,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions\/16606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}