{"id":5494,"date":"2011-05-20T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2011-05-18T21:56:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T09:56:38","slug":"christchurch-friends-of-the-library-guest-speaker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/christchurch-friends-of-the-library-guest-speaker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch Friends of the Library: Guest Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been very much a library person&#8212;as well as having a home overflowing with books I&#8217;ve bought (currently all in boxes because of living in earthquake city, but still, one day &#8230;)&#8212;so I am very pleased to have been able to accept the Christchurch Friends of the Library&#8217;s invitation to be their guest speaker on <strong>Tuesday 14 June, at 12.30 pm<\/strong> in the <strong>Sydenham Room<\/strong> of the wonderful <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/christchurchcitylibraries.com\/south\/\">South Library<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t entirely decided what I&#8217;ll be speaking on yet, but it&#8217;ll probably be around my personal path to international publication &amp; being a NZ fiction author published overseas&#8212;&amp; maybe just a wee bit of a paean to why writing fantasy is &#8220;da bomb.&#8221;\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been very much a library person&#8212;as well as having a home overflowing with books I&#8217;ve bought (currently all in boxes because of living in earthquake city, but still, one day &#8230;)&#8212;so I am very pleased to have been able to accept the Christchurch Friends of the Library&#8217;s invitation to be their guest speaker [&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-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","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=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5501,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}