{"id":21310,"date":"2015-10-07T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T04:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21310"},"modified":"2015-10-07T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T04:26:23","slug":"california-baker-never-forgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-baker-never-forgets\/","title":{"rendered":"California Baker Never Forgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/paulgau.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"680\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Master baker, Paul Gauweiler, of Huntington Beach, Calif.\u00a0has brought\u00a0happiness to countless families and individuals, including soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who have enjoyed\u00a0his specially made cakes shipped from California.\u00a0At Halloween he bakes\u00a0cookies shaped like pumpkins and at Christmas there are\u00a0delicious gingerbread pastries\u00a0and his famous Baumkuchen (tree cake). \u00a0He\u00a0wears\u00a0a smile and\u00a0yet, deep inside this amazing chef lies a hurt that&#8217;s been with him all his life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish I could have grown up with a father,&#8221; he\u00a0said. His dad, Robert Gauweiler (left photo), was assassinated by a Nazi firing squad in 1944 because of his beliefs.\u00a0But before he was murdered, they let him write a letter to his wife and family.\u00a0Paul Gaulweiler still has a hard time reading\u00a0it, but he never forgets. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/californian-remembers-father.html\">Here&#8217;s the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also watch the\u00a0\u00a0youtube video in which he reads and translates the German note from &#8220;papa&#8221;. See: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a5uHJLXaB2w<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master baker, Paul Gauweiler, of Huntington Beach, Calif.\u00a0has brought\u00a0happiness to countless families and individuals, including soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who have enjoyed\u00a0his specially made cakes shipped from California.\u00a0At Halloween he bakes\u00a0cookies shaped like pumpkins and at Christmas there are\u00a0delicious gingerbread pastries\u00a0and his famous Baumkuchen (tree cake). \u00a0He\u00a0wears\u00a0a smile and\u00a0yet, deep inside this amazing chef [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}