{"id":99,"date":"2017-03-14T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/?p=99"},"modified":"2017-03-15T10:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:43:53","slug":"baking-a-dream-web-extra-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/baking-a-dream-web-extra-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Baking a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a child, Betty Porto and her siblings mopped floors and washed dishes at their parents&#8217; new bakery in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. It was all fun and games for Porto\u00a0and\u00a0her siblings, particularly because her parents emphasized that school was their first priority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As time passed, the Porto siblings learned to bake and decorate cakes.\u00a0<\/span>Little did they know that this business would become their true passion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBy the time we all finished our careers, we had fallen in love with the business in a way that we didn\u2019t want to let it go,\u201d said Porto, who earned her master&#8217;s degree in political science. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-108 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/IMG_0542-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/IMG_0542-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/IMG_0542-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/IMG_0542-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/IMG_0542-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Porto, co-owner of Porto&#8217;s Bakery, poses in front of one of her dessert counters at Buena Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The bakery started to expand in the 1980s. The siblings took on different roles. Porto oversees\u00a0customer service; her brother Raul Jr. focuses on the business portion; and her sister Margarita decorates cakes.<\/p>\n<p>Her parents,\u00a0Rosa and Raul Sr., have retired now, but they occasionally stop by the bakeries and test new recipes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Porto\u00a0hopes her children\u00a0and her siblings&#8217; children will\u00a0carry on the tradition of running the family business.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child, Betty Porto and her siblings mopped floors and washed dishes at their parents&#8217; new bakery in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. It was all fun and games for Porto\u00a0and\u00a0her siblings, particularly because her parents emphasized that school was their first priority.\u00a0 As time passed, the Porto siblings learned to bake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}