{"id":4617,"date":"2016-08-30T13:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T12:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/?p=4617"},"modified":"2016-08-30T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T12:33:58","slug":"edinburgh-book-festival-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/2016\/08\/30\/edinburgh-book-festival-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4620\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/2016\/08\/30\/edinburgh-book-festival-3\/edinburgh-book-2016\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"189,133\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Edinburgh Book 2016\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4620\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Edinburgh Book 2016\" width=\"189\" height=\"133\" \/>S2 and S3 pupils visited the fabulous Edinburgh Book Festival to hear Keren David and Alex Wheatle talk about the characters in their books, how they became writers and what inspires them to create exciting stories.<\/p>\n<p>Not only were the talks interesting, but the sun shone and the ice cream was delicious!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4619\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/2016\/08\/30\/edinburgh-book-festival-3\/edinburgh-book-2016-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"157,217\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Edinburgh Book 2016 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016-2.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016-2.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4619 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016-2.jpg\" alt=\"Edinburgh Book 2016 2\" width=\"157\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are some views from our pupils:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I thought that the book festival was very good this year.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4618\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/2016\/08\/30\/edinburgh-book-festival-3\/edinburgh-book-2016-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"279,129\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Edinburgh Book 2016 3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016-3.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016-3.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4618\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Barrhead\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2016\/08\/Edinburgh-Book-2016-3.jpg\" alt=\"Edinburgh Book 2016 3\" width=\"279\" height=\"129\" \/>\u2019I really liked Alex Wheatle. He gave us a lot of information about what his life has been like and what the book was about. He was quite funny.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Can\u2019t wait to come back next year.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S2 and S3 pupils visited the fabulous Edinburgh Book Festival to hear Keren David and Alex Wheatle talk about the characters in their books, how they became writers and what inspires them to create exciting stories. Not only were the talks interesting, but the sun shone and the ice cream was delicious! Here are some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/2016\/08\/30\/edinburgh-book-festival-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edinburgh Book Festival<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8306,12605,46],"class_list":["post-4617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","tag-edinburgh-book-festival","tag-english-dept","tag-parents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617","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=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4621,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions\/4621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}