{"id":1049,"date":"2023-07-23T05:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T05:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:34:25","slug":"history-illuminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"History Illuminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 2nd of September I get to chat with 2 legends in one day and you get to come along and join in for a gold coin donation! \u00a0First off is none other than <a href=\"https:\/\/kategrenville.com.au\">Kate Grenville<\/a>, who will be joining me to discuss her latest book\u00a0<em>Restless Dolly Maunder<\/em> which is about Kate&#8217;s formidable grandmother which fans might remember from Kate&#8217;s book about her mother, <em>One Life<\/em>. \u00a0You can join us at Charlestown Library 2-3pm. \u00a0For more information and to book tickets (which are free to book &#8211; you pay your $1 or $2 coin at the door), here: <a href=\"https:\/\/library.lakemac.com.au\/Events\/Restless-Dolly-Maunder-Kate-Grenville-in-conversation\">https:\/\/library.lakemac.com.au\/Events\/Restless-Dolly-Maunder-Kate-Grenville-in-conversation<\/a> Directly following on from Kate Grenville at 3:15 I have a session with the fabulous <a href=\"https:\/\/jeankent.net\">Jean Kent<\/a>, whose new book, <em>The Shadow Box<\/em>, is, like my <em>Bobish<\/em>, a narrative verse memoir. \u00a0In Jean&#8217;s case <em>The Shadow Box <\/em>was inspired by the experiences of her maternal grandparents, George and Jean Campbell, during and shortly after World War I and we will delve into why poetry is such a good medium for historical memoir, why we call it memoir, and much more. \u00a0Jean&#8217;s poetry is, to put it simply, utterly gorgeous, and I am so excited about both of these sessions. \u00a0Please do come join us in Charlestown if you&#8217;re able.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 2nd of September I get to chat with 2 legends in one day and you get to come along and join in for a gold coin donation! \u00a0First off is none other than Kate Grenville, who will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1049\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,49,12],"tags":[58,50,57,34,14],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-news","tag-ancestry","tag-events","tag-family-history","tag-memoir","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}