{"id":1562,"date":"2014-03-17T22:25:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2014-03-17T22:26:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T22:26:12","slug":"books-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2014\/03\/books-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Books and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved picture books, as a kid I remember visiting the library &#038; piling up lots of chapter books to take home and using the rest of the time to read through the boxes of picture books. As I got older I used my nieces &#038; nephews birthday as an excuse to shop for picture books &#038; now I have my own kids to indulge my obsession. On twitter I found a community of folk passionate about children&#8217;s literature which led me to discover this amazing sounding conference organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcbg.org.uk\">The Federation of Children&#8217;s Book Group, <\/a>Books and Beyond 11-13 April<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140317-220133.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140317-220133.jpg\" alt=\"20140317-220133.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talks from amazing authors &#038; illustrators  such as  Cressida Cowell, Meg Rosoff, Anthony Browne, Helen Oxenbury, Ruta Sepetys and Lauren Child to enthuse and inspire. <\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcbg.org.uk\/conference\/\">The Federation of Children&#8217;s Book Group for all the details. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved picture books, as a kid I remember visiting the library &#038; piling up lots of chapter books to take home and using the rest of the time to read through the boxes of picture books. As I got older I used my nieces &#038; nephews birthday as an excuse to shop for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}