{"id":2060,"date":"2010-04-15T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2010-04-15T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:16:54","slug":"this-week-in-the-literary-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"This Week in the Literary World"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The West Virginia Book Faire wants fair goers to take a bite out of their favorite books. &#8220;The whole idea behind the festival is to get people reading,&#8221; said Weiss, who is overseeing the edible book competition. &#8220;Using food to represent a book or other piece of literature offers a great opportunity to do something artistic, and it&#8217;s fun to do whether you&#8217;re working along or with a group of friends or family. We thought it would make an ideal activity for parents to do with their children.&#8221; This is one event I&#8217;d love to see pictures of! [Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statejournal.com\/story.cfm?func=viewstory&amp;storyid=78320\" target=\"_blank\">The State\u00a0 Journal<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>John Schoenherr, a Caldecott award winner for <em>Owl Moon<\/em>, passed away at the age of 74. [Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/15\/arts\/15schoenherr.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The Irish Book of the Decade Shortlist has been posted. Among those on the list: John Connolly, Maeve Binchy, and John Banville. [Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/ireland\/2010\/0415\/1224268372816.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Times<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Library acquires first edition of journal through whose offices Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath met, and releases recordings of the pair talking about their relationship&#8221; [Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/apr\/15\/british-library-hughes-plath-romance\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Virginia Book Faire wants fair goers to take a bite out of their favorite books. &#8220;The whole idea behind the festival is to get people reading,&#8221; said Weiss, who is overseeing the edible book competition. &#8220;Using food to represent a book or other piece of literature offers a great opportunity to do something&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-literary-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-xe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}