{"id":4415,"date":"2017-06-05T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2017-06-03T22:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T14:34:56","slug":"so-i-am-happy-at-the-end-of-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/05\/so-i-am-happy-at-the-end-of-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"So &#8211; I am happy at the end of Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went to sessions at the <a href=\"https:\/\/mrrwfestival.com\/\">Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival<\/a> with people who I have long admired. They all talked sense, articulately, in an entertaining way &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Palin<\/li>\n<li>Clementine Ford<\/li>\n<li>Jane Caro<\/li>\n<li>Kerry O&#8217;Brien<\/li>\n<li>Robert Drewe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I grew up in a South West country town, we had a small Soldiers&#8217; Memorial Hall with a proscenium arch stage, red velvet curtains and dark, waxy floorboards &#8211; smelling of equal parts floor polish and dust, with an overtone of mustiness. The setup at the Margaret River Community Centre was quite different from my childhood:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4416\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mrtalking-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mrtalking-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mrtalking-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mrtalking-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went to sessions at the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival with people who I have long admired. They all talked sense, articulately, in an entertaining way &#8230; Michael Palin Clementine Ford Jane Caro Kerry O&#8217;Brien Robert Drewe When I grew up in a South West country town, we had a small Soldiers&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[458,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mrrwf17","category-blogjune-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-19d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}