{"id":1496,"date":"2016-02-08T22:23:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.citywalkerapp.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:38:16","slug":"holy-cannoli-vaccaros-cannoli-after-a-century-still-rolling-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/holy-cannoli-vaccaros-cannoli-after-a-century-still-rolling-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy cannoli! Vaccaro\u2019s cannoli: After a century, still rolling along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone around him talks and jokes occasionally as they work, but Nick Vaccaro rarely says a word. With single-minded determination, he is folding squares of cannoli dough around forms \u2014 by hand, just as his great-grandfather did. By day\u2019s end, he and his employees will have formed about 40,000 cannoli shells, the culmination of a multi-day process.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_9832.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_9832.jpeg\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-custom\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cI do this because of my family\u2019s heritage, and for my father,\u201d says Vaccaro, who often works 12- or 14-hour days at his company, Vaccaro\u2019s Desserts in Silver Spring. \u201cPlus, I like being able to set my own path. I don\u2019t like being told what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/food\/vaccaros-cannoli-after-a-century-still-rolling-along\/2014\/08\/29\/0f49e7ac-2e22-11e4-994d-202962a9150c_story.html\">Read the full article on the post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone around him talks and jokes occasionally as they work, but Nick Vaccaro rarely says a word. With single-minded determination, he is folding squares of cannoli dough around forms \u2014 by hand, just as his great-grandfather did. By day\u2019s end, he and his employees will have formed about 40,000 cannoli shells, the culmination of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[166,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baltimore","category-dessert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_9831.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9buia-o8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}