{"id":5194,"date":"2011-05-04T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2011-05-03T23:38:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T11:38:29","slug":"the-auckland-writers-readers-festival-2011-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/the-auckland-writers-readers-festival-2011-almost-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Auckland Writers’ & Readers’ Festival 2011–Almost Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Auckland Writers’ & Readers’ Festival<\/a> runs from 11-15 May, so it’s almost here. My friend, poet Joanna Preston<\/strong><\/a> is on the programme & if you’re in Auckland and have the chance to get along and hear her: do! Jo is an absolutely fabulous poet and you definitely won’t regret it.:)<\/p>\n

But the thing that really struck a chord for me, was “Bronnypop’s”<\/strong> post, “Truth is stranger than fiction …”<\/strong><\/em><\/a> on the Christchurch City Libraries’ blog<\/strong><\/a> yesterday, especially the part where she wrote:<\/p>\n

” … Last year I was looking forward to<\/a> airplane snacks and pillow menus and meeting amazing writers and speakers.\u00a0 This year I\u2019m so looking forward to all of this, but I am also looking forward to reliably flushing toilets, buildings that don\u2019t move around, and talking to people who can\u2019t spell \u2018liquefaction\u2019, and who don\u2019t know the geonet and crowe quake website addresses off by heart …<\/em><\/p>\n

… This year I am a little scared I will get weepy in some of the sessions<\/a>, not be able to remember where I am supposed to be, or even remember how to write about things other than portaloos and potholes.<\/em><\/p>\n

I “so” hear Bronnypop on this one. I also really hope that she enjoys the festival—from what I’ve skimmed of the programme, it looks like a good one.<\/p>\n

To read Bronnypop’s full post and maybe follow her posts from the festival, click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Auckland Writers’ & Readers’ Festival runs from 11-15 May, so it’s almost here. My friend, poet Joanna Preston is on the programme & if you’re in Auckland and have the chance to get along and hear her: do! Jo is an absolutely fabulous poet and you definitely won’t regret it.:) But the thing that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194","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=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5205,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}