{"id":2795,"date":"2016-10-27T17:36:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T06:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2016-10-27T17:38:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T06:38:31","slug":"spring-poetry-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2795","title":{"rendered":"Spring Poetry Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlystreetpoets.org.au\/2016\/10\/19\/spring-poetry-festival-29th-october\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2797\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Friendly-Street-Banner.png\" alt=\"friendly-street-banner\" width=\"603\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Friendly-Street-Banner.png 603w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Friendly-Street-Banner-300x61.png 300w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Friendly-Street-Banner-500x101.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aate.org.au\/saeta-content\/writers\/spring-poetry-festival\">SAETA<\/a> has invited me to help launch an anthology of South Australian high school students&#8217; poems this Saturday. I&#8217;ve written an introduction to the excellent collection. As guest poet on the day I&#8217;ll also be talking on the subject of &#8220;Why write poetry anyway?&#8221; I&#8217;ve previously been asked to judge the competition as well. It should be a good day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spring-Poetry-Festival.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spring-Poetry-Festival.png\" alt=\"spring-poetry-festival\" width=\"355\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spring-Poetry-Festival.png 355w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spring-Poetry-Festival-193x300.png 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAETA has invited me to help launch an anthology of South Australian high school students&#8217; poems this Saturday. I&#8217;ve written an introduction to the excellent collection. As guest poet on the day I&#8217;ll also be talking on the subject of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}