{"id":152768,"date":"2018-03-15T16:13:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=152768"},"modified":"2018-03-15T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:13:59","slug":"living-the-litfest-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2018\/03\/15\/living-the-litfest-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the LitFest Dream!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a blast at the Emirates LitFest in Dubai this past weekend! Between awesome sessions with new authors, free books from Dubai Post, rubbing elbows with authors during signings, and a swanky hotel, well, it&#8217;s hard to have a bad time here. We all found some neat books to read and even got some to share with school. We&#8217;re already making plans to come back next year for another round of literary greatness. If you didn\u2019t get a chance to go, look for more details next December! 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Between awesome sessions with new authors, free books from Dubai Post, rubbing elbows with authors during signings, and a swanky hotel, well, it&#8217;s hard to have a bad time here. We all found some neat books to read and even got some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":152756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grade-6","category-secondary-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}