{"id":3551,"date":"2020-04-21T22:01:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T12:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2020-04-21T22:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T12:05:30","slug":"virtual-book-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/virtual-book-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual book reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over on Facebook, my friends Jenn J McLeod and J&#8217;aimee Brooker started a new group, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/boredombustingbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boredom Busting Books<\/a>, inviting authors (mostly Australian) to post videos reading from their books, since none of us can go to book events in libraries, bookstores and festivals at present. I wasn&#8217;t courageous enough to do a live video as some authors have, but I finally recorded one, reading an excerpt from The Clothier&#8217;s Daughter.  So if you&#8217;d like to watch me and listen to some of the story, here it is. It&#8217;s about 9 minutes long. I even put on a dress, instead of my old jeans and t-shirt that I usually wear at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Book reading - The Clothier&#039;s Daughter\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yt7ZkSJJf0M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Facebook, my friends Jenn J McLeod and J&#8217;aimee Brooker started a new group, Boredom Busting Books, inviting authors (mostly Australian) to post videos reading from their books, since none of us can go to book events in libraries, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/virtual-book-reading\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168,161],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reading","tag-the-clothiers-daughter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}