{"id":12761,"date":"2015-07-12T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12761"},"modified":"2015-07-12T12:16:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T16:16:19","slug":"why-women-jump-out-of-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/why-women-jump-out-of-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Women Jump Out Of Cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/071215_1612_WhyWomenJum1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"691\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kelly Robinson looked into the weird practice of women jumping out of cakes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ancient Romans were the first known people to mix food with entertainment. They would cook and stuff one animal \u2013 such as a roasted pig \u2013 inside another, such as a cow.<\/li>\n<li>They also staged animals to make them look like they were alive. Fish swam in seas of sauce, and medievals continued this practice by using alcohol to create fire-breathing effects.<\/li>\n<li>This is also around the time that having an apple in the mouth of a pig became a thing. The idea was probably to make it look like the pig was alive and munching.<\/li>\n<li>By the end of the Middle Ages having living things \u2013 such as birds \u2013 inside food to fly out once the food was cut open, became popular.<\/li>\n<li>Having living people inside was a natural evolution and one banquet host managed to fit 28 musicians inside a pie.<\/li>\n<li>By the 1800s it was usually women in the pastries as such entertainment was often presented at parties by the elite for the elite. Wives, of course, were unwelcome.<\/li>\n<li>A 1970s article indicates that a cake jumper could make $220 (in 2015 dollars) per event.<\/li>\n<li>By the end of the 1970s having live humans come with your meal became less common as the equal rights movement meant that more and more women were at party events.<\/li>\n<li>The practice lives on though during events such as bachelor parties and areas of extravagant excess such as Las Vegas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the murder that truly brought the practice into the mainstream, the role that The Sims played, and famous examples of humans jumping out of food over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/practice-women-jumping-giant-cakes-start\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/practice-women-jumping-giant-cakes-start\/\">Today I Found Out<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Robinson looked into the weird practice of women jumping out of cakes: The Ancient Romans were the first known people to mix food with entertainment. They would cook and stuff one animal \u2013 such as a roasted pig \u2013 inside another, such as a cow. They also staged animals to make them look like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/071215_1612_WhyWomenJum1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12764,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions\/12764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}