{"id":3989,"date":"2015-09-03T12:18:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T11:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2015-09-08T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T16:00:38","slug":"edinburgh-book-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/2015\/09\/03\/edinburgh-book-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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On Monday, 31 August S2 and S3 pupils visited the Edinburgh Book Festival to hear author Matt Whyman talk about his books and what inspired him.<\/p>\n

Pupils had the opportunity to browse in the bookshop and have their lunch in beautiful (and sunny) gardens within the Book Festival grounds,\u00a0 before taking their front row seats in the auditorium.\u00a0 Many pupils bought Matt Whyman\u2019s books and got them signed by him at the end of his session.<\/p>\n

Here are some views from the pupils:<\/p>\n

\u2018I really enjoyed the experience. Everyone was really friendly and always had a smile on their face.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The Edinburgh Book Festival was brilliant.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I loved hearing about Matt Whyman\u2019s book, especially \u2018The Savages\u2019 because it sounds very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 On Monday, 31 August S2 and S3 pupils visited the Edinburgh Book Festival to hear author Matt Whyman talk about his books and what inspired him. Pupils had the opportunity to browse in the bookshop and have their lunch in beautiful (and sunny) gardens within the Book Festival grounds,\u00a0 before taking their front row … Continue reading Edinburgh Book Festival<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[8306,13679,46,73,1739,251],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","tag-edinburgh-book-festival","tag-international-book-festival","tag-parents","tag-pupils","tag-s2","tag-s3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}