{"id":79,"date":"2011-05-23T17:39:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T17:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uconnnclc.wordpress.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2011-05-23T17:39:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T17:39:23","slug":"ct-book-festival-gets-great-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/05\/23\/ct-book-festival-gets-great-review\/","title":{"rendered":"CT Book Festival Gets Great Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to\u00a0lovely comments from our presenters, exhibitors, and attendees, the <a title=\"Windsor.Patch.Com\" href=\"http:\/\/windsor.patch.com\/articles\/connecticut-book-festival-celebrates-state-authors-and-fun-of-reading-3\" target=\"_blank\">Windsor Patch posted this great review <\/a>of the first ever Connecticut Book Festival.\u00a0\u00a0Many thanks go to everyone involved, \u00a0especially to the wonderful authors and\u00a0 presenters, volunteers and\u00a0workers, food vendors, exhibitors, performers, therapy dogs and their friends, and of course the attendees who came out to enjoy the Festival.\u00a0 Special thanks go to Bill Thomson for judging our Sidewalk Chalk contest and generously providing signed posters to loads of kids (some bigger than others), and for handing out four copies of his book <em>Chalk<\/em> to contest winners.\u00a0 The Mystic Paper Beasts were also a hit with children of all ages.[slideshow]<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to\u00a0lovely comments from our presenters, exhibitors, and attendees, the Windsor Patch posted this great review of the first ever Connecticut Book Festival.\u00a0\u00a0Many thanks go to everyone involved, \u00a0especially to the wonderful authors and\u00a0 presenters, volunteers and\u00a0workers, food vendors, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/05\/23\/ct-book-festival-gets-great-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,360,1,361],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}