{"id":1313,"date":"2013-04-01T19:36:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2013-04-01T21:38:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T21:38:24","slug":"edible-book-festival-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2013\/04\/edible-book-festival-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Edible Book Festival 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again where we don our aprons &#038; take our picture books into the kitchen to prepare our entry for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playingbythebook.net\/2013\/03\/28\/winners-of-the-international-edible-book-festival\/\">Edible Book competition (check out all the amazing entries)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided to get some of our picture books &#038; cookery books out for Bryn &#038; I to browse as a source of inspiration. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-203703.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-203703.jpg\" alt=\"20130401-203703.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhile I was getting carried away with fanciful ideas of bread made treasure chests, blue jelly sea, jewelled buns Bryn had picked his way through the books to settle on a favourite. Martha &#038; the Bunny Brothers, I love school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-205743.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-205743.jpg\" alt=\"20130401-205743.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLike Martha one of Bryns favourite things to do is make biscuits which seemed the perfect way to recreate his favourite spread from the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-203957.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-203957.jpg\" alt=\"20130401-203957.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBryn &#038; his dad made some gingerbread dough while I drew out some templates. Bryn then helped cut the paper templates out for me to use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-204104.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-204104.jpg\" alt=\"20130401-204104.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe also smashed up some pink boiled sweets to use for the lenses to the starry glasses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-204202.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-204202.jpg\" alt=\"20130401-204202.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOnce baked all we had to do was decorate with lots of icing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-204258.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-204258.jpg\" alt=\"20130401-204258.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Martha biscuit-scape was complete<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-204508.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-204508.jpg\" alt=\"20130401-204508.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.. maybe next year I might try my idea&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-223456.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-223456.jpg\" alt=\"20130401-223456.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again where we don our aprons &#038; take our picture books into the kitchen to prepare our entry for the Edible Book competition (check out all the amazing entries) I decided to get some of our picture books &#038; cookery books out for Bryn &#038; I to browse as a [&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":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","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=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}