{"id":1188,"date":"2012-03-19T20:45:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T20:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2012-03-19T21:56:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T21:56:22","slug":"edible-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2012\/03\/edible-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Edible Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to enter &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playingbythebook.net\/2012\/03\/19\/playing-by-the-books-inaugural-edible-book-festival-is-now-open\/\">Playing by the Book&#8217;s edible book competition<\/a>, the idea was to create an edible book based on a children&#8217;s book &#8211; what a fab idea. I quickly came to the conclusion however that neither my baking or creative skills were up to such a challenge. As I was just about to give up we woke to a fairly sunny Saturday sending Owen out to dig up the garden &#038; Bryn talking about planting seeds, it was just the inspiration I needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120319-205747.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120319-205747.jpg\" alt=\"20120319-205747.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our entry is based on &#8216;Planting a rainbow&#8217;, a book I bought for Bryn when he was a baby &#038; one which Freya is currently enjoying flipping though. We bought the book at a time where we didn&#8217;t have a garden so I used to enjoy reading it to Bryn while planning one day that we too would plant our own rainbow (so far i have managed yellow daffodils &#038; purple irises). I like the geometric shapes, block colours within the book &#038; it is by far my favourite gardening book.<\/p>\n<p>Once we had decided to make a garden from biscuits we rifled through the cookie cutters, Bryn picked out a holly leaf while I chose a bell to make bluebells. Owen &#038; Bryn got to work on the biscuit dough &#038; once cooked then cooled I was let loose with the icing. After decorating the biscuits I raided our fridge &#038; used cucumber peel for flower stalks and carrots for additional flower heads.<\/p>\n<p>This was a fun competition &#038; a fab excuse to fill our biscuit tin with beautifully brightly coloured biscuits, a great start to spring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120319-215138.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120319-215138.jpg\" alt=\"20120319-215138.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to enter &#8216;Playing by the Book&#8217;s edible book competition, the idea was to create an edible book based on a children&#8217;s book &#8211; what a fab idea. I quickly came to the conclusion however that neither my baking or creative skills were up to such a challenge. As I was just about to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-competition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}