{"id":465,"date":"2018-03-15T16:19:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/?p=465"},"modified":"2018-03-15T16:20:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:20:27","slug":"get-lit-e69-with-arif-anwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2018\/03\/15\/get-lit-e69-with-arif-anwar\/","title":{"rendered":"GET LIT E69 with ARIF ANWAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy folks!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fellow writer and want a little time away from the world, there&#8217;s still a bit of time to book writing retreats\/residencies at the Pelee Island Book House. I just booked one for June. Seven excellent days of quiet, nature, writing folk and, of course, writing. Check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peleeislandbookhouse.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">website<\/span> <\/a>(I&#8217;m not shilling for them btw; I sincerely enjoyed the place and the creativity it fostered!) Deadline is March 20.<\/p>\n<p>First a quick PSA for the Hamilton area folk &#8211; GritLit is looking for volunteers. This year&#8217;s festival is April 12 -15. Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gritlit.ca\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">here<\/span> <\/a>for more info.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s guest is first-time author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7889243.Arif_Anwar\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Arif Anwar<\/span><\/a>. We talk about his remarkably-assured debut, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.ca\/9781443454216\/the-storm\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Storm<\/span><\/a>. I dug it, hope you do too!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Get Lit E69 Mar 15 2018 by James Tennant\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F414049239&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy folks! If you&#8217;re a fellow writer and want a little time away from the world, there&#8217;s still a bit of time to book writing retreats\/residencies at the Pelee Island Book House. I just booked one for June. Seven excellent days of quiet, nature, writing folk and, of course, writing. Check out their website (I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}