{"id":14271,"date":"2026-02-26T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/?p=14271"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:28:10","slug":"world-book-day-approaches-dinner-spots-filling-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/world-book-day-approaches-dinner-spots-filling-up\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day Approaches; Dinner Spots Filling Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2017\/02\/dinnerandabook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11954 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2017\/02\/dinnerandabook-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2017\/02\/dinnerandabook-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2017\/02\/dinnerandabook-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2017\/02\/dinnerandabook-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2017\/02\/dinnerandabook.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The 2026 World Book Day lecture will be one week from today, on Thursday, 5 March. \u00a0Ian Ferguson will speak at 5:30 pm in Burns 2, with a dinner at Ombrellos to follow. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/world-book-day-lecture-5-march-2026\/\">See the Centre&#8217;s blog for full details<\/a> of the lecture and dinner menu information. \u00a0If you&#8217;d like to join us for the meal, please send an email to <a href=\"mailto:books@otago.ac.nz\">books@otago.ac.nz<\/a> with your name and number of places required. \u00a0Paul Tankard is wrapping up a set of raffles, each with its own background story for some lucky winners at the dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 World Book Day lecture will be one week from today, on Thursday, 5 March. \u00a0Ian Ferguson will speak at 5:30 pm in Burns 2, with a dinner at Ombrellos to follow. \u00a0See the Centre&#8217;s blog for full details of the lecture and dinner menu information. \u00a0If you&#8217;d like to join us for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}