{"id":14349,"date":"2014-11-05T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=14349"},"modified":"2014-11-05T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T11:00:29","slug":"concise-critical-capsule-captures-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=14349","title":{"rendered":"Concise Critical Capsule Captures Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time to announce both the winner, and to reveal the regal grand prize, of the<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=14199\"> Compelling Contest <em>\u2014 <\/em>which ran here on October 23rd<\/a>\u00a0<em>\u2014 <\/em> challenging the alliterative acumen of its amiable antagonists.<br \/>\nThere were some terrific entries here, but one of them stood out: Karin Thogerson&#8217;s recap for <em>The Fault In Our Stars<\/em>.<br \/>\n<em>Cancer couple courtship culminates in cryfest<\/em>.<br \/>\nThe two runners up were Kate Braasch&#8217;s <em>Don\u2019t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! <\/em>entry:<br \/>\n<em>Public plug prohibits pigeon piloting public pick-upper. Premeditating and pesky pigeon persists and petitions piloting. Pensive pigeon\u2019s prayer precluded; possible portage post? Parable pleases people and pigeons proportionately.<\/em><br \/>\nAnd Margaret&#8217;s <em>Blueberries for Sal <\/em>entry<em>:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Moms and moppets maneuver Maine mountain, making menu of mazarine morsels. Mischievous mayhem materializes: moppets misplaced! Maternal mistrust materializes \u2014 maybe a monster! Mercifully, mutatis mutandis, mistakes are mitigated<\/em>.<br \/>\nAnd what of the regal reward? Karin will receive the amazing new giant morphing wind-up dinosaur car, modeled by DDG&#8217;s own Karin Schott! Drum roll please&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/grandprize-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14352\" alt=\"grandprize\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/grandprize-2.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"979\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThanks to everyone who entered!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alliterative blurb writing contest grand prize and champion are announced.<\/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-14349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}