{"id":5655,"date":"2026-01-06T11:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:02:10","slug":"king-cake-sales-begin-at-picayune-pastry-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/king-cake-sales-begin-at-picayune-pastry-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"King Cake Sales Begin at Picayune Pastry Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/2026\/01\/03\/king-cake-sales-begin-picayune-pastry-shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wlox-010226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"817\" height=\"409\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 alignnone size-full wp-image-5657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wlox-010226.jpg 817w, https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wlox-010226-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wlox-010226-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 817px) 100vw, 817px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/2026\/01\/03\/king-cake-sales-begin-picayune-pastry-shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WLOX.com<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>PICAYUNE, Miss. (WLOX) &#8211; Mardi Gras season officially begins in a few days, but king cakes are already flying off the shelves.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Many south Mississippi families have made it a tradition to get king cakes every year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cAs a kid in school, we would get out of school several days for Mardi Gras,\u201d said Julie Douglas, a Madison, Mississippi resident. \u201dThat was so special. We would go to the parades, but my favorite part was always the king cake.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Many of those families get their cakes from Paul\u2019s Pastry Shop in Picayune.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Watch video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/2026\/01\/03\/king-cake-sales-begin-picayune-pastry-shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/2026\/01\/03\/king-cake-sales-begin-picayune-pastry-shop\/<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From WLOX.com: PICAYUNE, Miss. (WLOX) &#8211; Mardi Gras season officially begins in a few days, but king cakes are already flying off the shelves. Many south Mississippi families have made it a tradition to get king cakes every year. \u201cAs a kid in school, we would get out of school several days for Mardi Gras,\u201d [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[123,19,20,26,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}