{"id":466,"date":"2008-03-07T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2008\/03\/07\/peeps-ahoy\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T07:10:00","slug":"peeps-ahoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Peeps Ahoy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh to be as multi-talented as my pal <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ericaperl.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Erica Perl<\/a>! She writes divine books, parents divine children, and participates in wonderfully wacky activities like this one: making marshmallow Peep dioramas for a contest hosted by a major newspaper. Yes, the Washington Post is hosting its second annual <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/07\/AR2008020703805.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Peeps Diorama Contest<\/a>, and Erica and her&nbsp;daughters (Franny and Bougie)&nbsp;have come up with a doozy of an entry: Harry Peeper and the Deathly Mallows!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/articles\/blog\/660000266\/20080303\/harry_peeper_5.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Erica reveals the secrets of this diorama&#8217;s creation on her <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ericaperl.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a>. Yes, she did indeed sew yarn hair onto Ron Peep and Hermione Peep. Talk about&nbsp;dedication&nbsp;to a fabulously ridiculous cause!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Erica&#8217;s not alone in this insanity. One look at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/gallery\/2007\/04\/05\/GA2007040501052.html\" rel=\"noopener\">gallery<\/a> of photos from last year&#8217;s contest shows that MANY people put a LOT of time into their Peep shows (pun intended). Now that&nbsp;others have&nbsp;seen how it&#8217;s done, this year&#8217;s competition is bound to be even stiffer. (About as stiff as, say, a container of stale Peeps!) So, keep your fingers crossed for the Perl family clan. Win big, Franny and Bougie!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too late to submit entries for this year&#8217;s competition, but not too early to start thinking ahead to 2009! Anyone have book theme suggestions for one of next year&#8217;s creations? Me, I&#8217;m thinking Peep Eyre. Or maybe Peep&#8217;s Web (featuring&nbsp;the words &quot;Some Peep,&quot; of course.)&nbsp;Moby Peep, perhaps? Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more Peep laughs, be sure to read the detailed account of a surgical procedure performed on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peepresearch.org\/surgery.html\" rel=\"noopener\">conjoined Peep quintuplets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh to be as multi-talented as my pal Erica Perl! She writes divine books, parents divine children, and participates in wonderfully wacky activities like this one: making marshmallow Peep dioramas for a contest hosted by a major newspaper. Yes, the Washington Post is hosting its second annual Peeps Diorama Contest, and Erica and her&nbsp;daughters (Franny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","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\/466","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}