{"id":57419,"date":"2025-08-23T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=57419"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:32:41","slug":"while-snow-and-lakeland-dont-seem-to-have-a-whole-lot-in-common-a-local-family-is-ready-to-share-their-latest-obsession-with-lakelands-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/08\/23\/while-snow-and-lakeland-dont-seem-to-have-a-whole-lot-in-common-a-local-family-is-ready-to-share-their-latest-obsession-with-lakelands-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"While snow and Lakeland don’t seem to have a whole lot in common, a local family is ready to share their latest obsession with Lakeland’s downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lakeland couple Caleb and Natalie Leonard plan to open Vampire Penguin<\/a>, a dessert shop offering shaved snow treats, at 215 E. Pine St. this fall alongside Natalie’s parents, Ken and Keni Parks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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There’s a lot of work to be done to remodel the existing Gent’s Classic Cuts salon into their vision of a cozy, Gothic Victorian-inspired cafe by Oct. 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vampire Penguin brand was started by two brothers, Paolo and Leo San Luis, in 2013. The brothers created a shaved snow treat by combining elements they liked of different dessert ices, the fine texture of Hawaiian ice, creaminess and richness of Taiwanese ice and the American feel of a snowcone, according to the company’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Stay tuned to Vampire Penguin Lakeland’s Facebook page<\/a> for previews of the treats and exact hours as the shop gets closer to opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lakeland couple Caleb and Natalie Leonard plan to open Vampire Penguin, a dessert shop offering shaved snow treats, at 215 E. Pine St. this fall alongside Natalie’s parents, Ken and Keni… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"4","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","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":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDhcL3ZwLWxvZ28ud2VicD9maXQ9MjI1JTJDMjI1JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiV2hpbGUgc25vdyBhbmQgTGFrZWxhbmQgZG9uJiM4MjE3O3Qgc2VlbSB0byBoYXZlIGEgd2hvbGUgbG90IGluIGNvbW1vbiwgYSBsb2NhbCBmYW1pbHkgaXMgcmVhZHkgdG8gc2hhcmUgdGhlaXIgbGF0ZXN0IG9ic2Vzc2lvbiB3aXRoIExha2VsYW5kJiM4MjE3O3MgZG93bnRvd24iLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.4JHCfteBCaoaA9g20x0d_1MZcc7aeV3UYEG7wvvw61UMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":57421,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/vp-logo.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[12032,12031],"class_list":["post-57419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-a-local-family-is-ready-to-share-their-latest-obsession-with-lakelands-downtown","tag-while-snow-and-lakeland-dont-seem-to-have-a-whole-lot-in-common"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57422,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57419\/revisions\/57422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}