{"id":32728,"date":"2024-10-03T22:55:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32728"},"modified":"2024-10-03T22:55:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:55:30","slug":"national-poetry-day-at-abingdon-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32728","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Day at Abingdon Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024100302.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nJess, the librarian at Abingdon Library, hosted a National Poetry Day event featuring readings from three published poets: Andrew Jamison, Fiona Perry, and Daniel Sluman.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024100304.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLocal group Ock Poets also contributed to the event, with Jacquie Shanahan and other members sharing their work. The event was a sell-out, culminating in a good audience discussion at the end. Chris, a librarian, who helped Jess run the evening, also bravely read a poem he had written.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024100306.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA tree has been set up in the library, inviting visitors to write a short extract from a favourite poem.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024100305.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess, the librarian at Abingdon Library, hosted a National Poetry Day event featuring readings from three published poets: Andrew Jamison, Fiona Perry, and Daniel Sluman. Local group Ock Poets also contributed to the event, with Jacquie Shanahan and other members sharing their work. The event was a sell-out, culminating in a good audience discussion at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}