{"id":1412,"date":"2009-01-01T15:58:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T20:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2009-01-01T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T21:52:40","slug":"marshmallow-peep-nye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2009\/01\/marshmallow-peep-nye\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshmallow Peep NYE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I met up with Stephen<\/a> to attend the Bethlehem First Night<\/a> celebration, the height of which was the dropping of a big fiberglass Peep at midnight.<\/p>\n

It was cold last night, by the time we arrived and parked in Bethlehem it was shortly after 7, and already 20 degrees out. We wandered around looking for food for about an hour, finally settling on Rosanna’s Restaurant, a pizzeria on Broad street near where we parked for the evening. They closed at 9:30, so we headed back out into the cold at that time and went down to the plaza where the peep drop was taking place.<\/p>\n

We mostly just hung out with other people huddled by the fire pits placed throughout the square, but the two hours down there were livened up by a few things, including a friendly crowd…<\/p>\n

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…ice sculptures!<\/p>\n

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…Peep roasting!<\/p>\n

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..for Peep smores! The Peep smore kits were being given away by the event organizers, very fun.<\/p>\n

Shortly after 11 I was getting a bit too cold, so we flocked inside town hall with a lot of other people to huddle in the warmth. At around quarter to midnight we went back outside to celebrate the new year with the rest of the crowd.<\/p>\n

And so, at midnight to much cheering we watched the big Peep be lowered from a crane in the corner of the square.<\/p>\n

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It was so cold, did I mention that? We skipped most of the fireworks and headed back to the car at that point. The crowd was actually not that bad, and getting out of the garage (which turned out to be free that night!) and the city of Bethlehem was trivial.<\/p>\n

A very fun night! Happy 2009! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I met up with Stephen to attend the Bethlehem First Night celebration, the height of which was the dropping of a big fiberglass Peep at midnight. It was cold last night, by the time we arrived and parked in Bethlehem it was shortly after 7, and already 20 degrees out. We wandered around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}