{"id":32965,"date":"2020-08-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=32965"},"modified":"2020-08-19T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T12:00:00","slug":"the-celebrity-picture-book-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=32965","title":{"rendered":"The Celebrity Picture Book Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When famous people write picture books the world is the winner <br \/>So many people hungry for schmaltz have a 32 course dinner<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p>They have excelled at acting, governing, singing, leaping, writing novels or thrillers<br \/>And now with dubious assurance reach their hands to picture book tillers<\/p>\n\n\n<p>When a &nbsp;celebrity rhymes it must be admitted<br \/>That on the surface it seems like a crime was committed<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In well trafficked life messages they abound <br \/>With leaden morals the couplets resound<\/p>\n\n\n<p>If fame makes their otherwise noisome words sound great<br \/>Be thankful that celebrity picture books creates of them a spate<\/p>\n\n\n<p>So let us drown in their insipid provender<br \/>To their odious charms let us surrender<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Challenges these books urge us to undertake<br \/>And so in our endeavor should you surely partake<\/p>\n\n\n<p>And what is our challenge?<br \/>What shape our literary phalange?<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The most dreadfully meaningful rhyming couplets submitted will, as you surmise,<br \/>Win an unnamed yet desirable prize<\/p>\n\n\n<p>So cast your entry into the comments below<br \/>And fame or something like it victory shall bestow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try your hand at this rhyming couplet contest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}