{"id":3545,"date":"2017-10-18T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T22:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2017-10-18T09:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T22:15:59","slug":"spring-shorts-and-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3545","title":{"rendered":"spring shorts and your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/quartshort\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SpringShorts-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SpringShorts-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SpringShorts-478x300.png 478w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SpringShorts.png 491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bad health and mobility problems have forced us to put our Cherry Gardens property on the market so it was a welcome opportunity to get along to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebibliothecabar\/?hc_ref=ARSNH1scCTBK952tHg4Bo502oBU8CH0GPU2n9oLHtbQ-Ph5HoC-7dXLXtZjQaAl0At4\">Bibliotheca Bar and Book Exchange<\/a> in Adelaide for the Spring Shorts instalment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/121581568586169\/143534906390835\/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2229%22%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3A%22admin_plan_mall_activity%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&amp;notif_id=1508248689818148&amp;notif_t=admin_plan_mall_activity\">Quart Short Literary Reading Nights<\/a>, to sip on a Yamazaki whisky and forget about the stresses of real estate for a while. Veteran actor Patrick Frost read my short story <em>My Life \u00a9<\/em> brilliantly. It\u2019s an interesting experience disassociatedly hearing your own work coming from someone else\u2019s mouth. Actors Michael Allen, Nikki Fort, Robbie Greenwell, Holly Meyers and Lucy Slattery read a range of new work by Ben Brooker, Bernadette Eden, Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Gemma Parker, Sally Ryhanen and Deb Wain.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks once again to the actors and the Quart Short Collective (Janet Thomas, Ben Brooker &amp; Patrick Frost) for promoting Australian writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad health and mobility problems have forced us to put our Cherry Gardens property on the market so it was a welcome opportunity to get along to the Bibliotheca Bar and Book Exchange in Adelaide for the Spring Shorts instalment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3545\">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-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","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=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}