{"id":16167,"date":"2018-05-14T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=16167"},"modified":"2018-05-14T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:14:10","slug":"belfast-book-festival-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2018\/05\/belfast-book-festival-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Book Festival 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Make a date in your diary for the 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Belfast Book Festival,\u00a0supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council, 6th \u2013 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June.<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16168\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16168\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/press2-1024x1002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"343\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture by Brian Morrison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over 11 days the world of books will open up via unique and diverse events featuring high profile authors\u00a0as well as events exploring a range of interests and themes.<\/p>\n<p>With The Crescent as its home, the festival will take place in various venues across the city. \u00a0\u00a0New this year is the internationally recognised Lit Crawl were,\u00a0for one night only, venues across the Queens Quarter including Botanic Gardens and Tropical Ravine will offer FREE and \u00a0exciting events which will \u00a0introduce festival goers to new experiences such as\u00a0a Poetry JukeBox Jaunt at Botanic Gardens featuring the poetry of Mairtin Crawford &amp; Heather Newcombe (bring your own headphones).<\/p>\n<p>The Family Fun Day at Lower Crescent Park is this year inspired by the works of Roald Dahl. For further details on the festival programme visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfastbookfestival.com\/\">www.belfastbookfestival.com<\/a><\/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>Make a date in your diary for the 8th\u00a0Belfast Book Festival,\u00a0supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council, 6th \u2013 16th\u00a0June. &nbsp; Over 11 days the world of books will open up via unique and diverse events featuring high profile authors\u00a0as well as events exploring a range of interests and themes. With &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2018\/05\/belfast-book-festival-2018\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16171,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167\/revisions\/16171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}