{"id":443,"date":"2008-09-29T21:42:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T01:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2008-09-29T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T01:42:51","slug":"win-a-trip-to-the-texas-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Win A Trip to the Texas Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read about this earlier today on Helen Ginger’s blog<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas is giving away a trip for two<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to the festival which is from October 30th to November 3rd this year.\u00c2\u00a0 (This grand prize includes airfare and accommodations.)\u00c2\u00a0 Second prize is a Fort Worth Arts and Culture Tour (this also includes airfare and accommodations.) and the third prize is a gift basket from Barnes and Noble.\u00c2\u00a0 If I weren’t returning from a vacation around\u00c2\u00a0the time of the festival I’d enter.\u00c2\u00a0 There isn’t much time left to enter, so hurry!<\/p>\n

I’ve wanted to visit Austin for a long time and just haven’t seemed to find the right time to go.\u00c2\u00a0 The Texas Book Festival has too many authors to count that will be there.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the names I recognized were Ann Cummins (author of The Red Ant House<\/em>), Kathleen Kent (author of The Heretic’s Daughter<\/em>), Andre Dubus III (author of The House of Sand and Fog<\/em>), David Ebershoff (author of The 19th Wife<\/em>), Ann Packer (author of The Dive From Clausen’s Pier<\/em>) and Francine Prose (author of Blue Angel<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Have you ever been to a book festival?\u00c2\u00a0 The closest I’ve ever been is what I see on C-SPAN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read about this earlier today on Helen Ginger’s blog.\u00c2\u00a0 The Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas is giving away a trip for two\u00c2\u00a0to the festival which is from October 30th to November 3rd this year.\u00c2\u00a0 (This grand prize includes airfare and accommodations.)\u00c2\u00a0 Second prize is a Fort Worth Arts and Culture Tour (this… Continue reading Win A Trip to the Texas Book Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-texas-book-festival","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}