{"id":8929,"date":"2017-10-31T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=8929"},"modified":"2017-10-31T10:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:39:58","slug":"edible-books-contest-good-enough-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/8929","title":{"rendered":"Edible Books contest: Good enough to eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8930\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8930\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/CornCake.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Adam Fullerton\" width=\"200\" height=\"193\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Adam Fullerton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>by Christina Vazquez&#8211;<\/strong>\u201cChildren of the Candy Corn\u201d was the first place winner and fan favorite of Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Learning Center\u2019s 3<span style=\"font-size: small\">rd<\/span>\u00a0annual Edible Books contest.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Alexander, of group E=MC Hammer, was \u201cshocked\u201d that her entry won.\u00a0 \u201cI mean, I knew the cake was rad but I didn\u2019t expect to win twice,\u201d says Alexander. \u201cActually, I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d win at all and wasn\u2019t even going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The winning cake was inspired by Stephen King\u2019s short horror story \u201cChildren of the Corn.\u201d \u201cI love Halloween and wanted to do something in reference to a scary story, and Stephen King is the best with stuff like that,\u201d says Alexander.\u00a0 \u201cI love the story of the \u2018Children of the Corn\u2019 and wanted to do a pun with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reception of the tiered cake was an almost unanimous appreciation for the genius behind it.<\/p>\n<p>A love for stories is a driving force behind the event. Rin Payte, a Learning Center employee and second place winner with \u201cThe Lion, the Kitch(en), &amp; the Wardrobe,\u201d says that they were inspired by \u201ca love for books, mostly\u2026 I made the poster and I got pumped.\u201d As for feelings regarding the results of the contest, Payte was \u201cexcited mostly. I was worried about my cake because my trees kept falling over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Circulation manager Karen Wascher, who helped organize the event, thinks that it will definitely continue in Morningside\u2019s future. Edible Books contests originally began as April Fools\u2019 event at other libraries, although when the HJF Learning Center instituted it, they hosted it in the fall as to avoid possible conflicts with Easter break and test season.<\/p>\n<p>Wascher says one of the hardest parts about organizing the event is getting enough people to participate.\u00a0 \u201cEverybody thinks it\u2019s a fun idea, but [the trouble is with] getting enough people with good ideas that will follow through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christina Vazquez&#8211;\u201cChildren of the Candy Corn\u201d was the first place winner and fan favorite of Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Learning Center\u2019s 3rd\u00a0annual Edible Books contest. Sara Alexander, of group E=MC Hammer, was \u201cshocked\u201d that her entry won.\u00a0 \u201cI mean, I knew the cake was rad but I didn\u2019t expect to win twice,\u201d says Alexander. \u201cActually, I didn\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":8930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8933,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929\/revisions\/8933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}