{"id":26440,"date":"2014-07-24T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T18:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=26440"},"modified":"2014-07-15T20:39:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T08:39:28","slug":"word-christchurch-writers-readers-festival-27-31-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/07\/24\/word-christchurch-writers-readers-festival-27-31-august\/","title":{"rendered":"WORD Christchurch Writers &#038; Readers&#8217; Festival 27-31 August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/coming-up-this-week-21-27-july\/wordchch-homeimage\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26431\" title=\"wordCHCH-HomeImage\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wordCHCH-HomeImage-272x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wordCHCH-HomeImage-272x300.png 272w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wordCHCH-HomeImage-136x150.png 136w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wordCHCH-HomeImage.png 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a>The <strong>Christchurch Writers and Readers&#8217; Festival<\/strong> has revamped itself as <strong>WORD Christchurch<\/strong> and the very exciting 5-day programme was launched at an event hosted by The Press on Thursday 10 July.<\/p>\n<p>The programme has a number of major strands that should &#8212; imho &#8212; appeal to a wide cross section. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Word and Music<\/li>\n<li>Performance Poetry<\/li>\n<li>Current international events<\/li>\n<li>Food<\/li>\n<li>Literary fiction stars &#8212; not least, Booker winner, Eleanor Catton, &amp; fellow finalist, Noviolet Bulawayo<\/li>\n<li>Fantasy &amp; world-building, including the graphic novel<\/li>\n<li>Crime<\/li>\n<li>YA &amp; kids &#8212; including a strand of free events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is &#8216;huge&#8217; for Christchurch &#8212; and an exciting way to leap into spring, so if you haven&#8217;t already checked out the programme, you can do so by clicking here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordchristchurch.co.nz\/programme\/\" target=\"_blank\">WORD Christchurch Programme: 27-31 August<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christchurch Writers and Readers&#8217; Festival has revamped itself as WORD Christchurch and the very exciting 5-day programme was launched at an event hosted by The Press on Thursday 10 July. The programme has a number of major strands that should &#8212; imho &#8212; appeal to a wide cross section. These include: Word and Music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26440"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26463,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26440\/revisions\/26463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}