{"id":474160,"date":"2026-09-24T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474160\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:18:08","slug":"california-birthday-girl-sparks-chaos-after-blowing-out-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474160\/","title":{"rendered":"California Birthday Girl Sparks Chaos After Blowing Out Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Annie Gonzales was celebrating her 30th birthday surrounded by friends at her mom&#8217;s house in Redondo Beach, California, when her celebration took an unexpected turn.After blowing out the candles, Annie lifted her birthday cake to celebrate with her friends. But moments later, the $200 cake slipped from her hands and came crashing onto the floor, leaving everyone watching in disbelief.The moment was filmed by her friend, Dayna Poskanzer, capturing the chaos as the group reacted to the mishap.Annie later summed up the moment perfectly, writing: &#8220;Nothing says turning 30 like dropping your own birthday cake.&#8221;Friends also joined in on the laughter, with one commenting, &#8220;I&#8217;m literally crying,&#8221; while another joked, &#8220;New angle unlocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Annie Gonzales was celebrating her 30th birthday surrounded by friends at her mom&#8217;s house in Redondo Beach, California,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[45482,186501,167136,186503,7,9,8,186502,17822,159903],"class_list":["post-474160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-30th-birthday","tag-annie-gonzales","tag-birthday-cake","tag-blowing-out-the-candles","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-dayna-poskanzer","tag-redondo-beach","tag-unexpected-turn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}