{"id":2282,"date":"2014-07-10T17:40:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontowots.wordpress.com\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2015-08-13T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:08:51","slug":"25-more-reasons-to-volunteer-at-the-word-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/25-more-reasons-to-volunteer-at-the-word-on-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"25 MORE Reasons to Volunteer at The Word On The Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month we shared\u00a025 Reasons to Volunteer at The Word On The Street<\/a>, and as a result our community really stepped up to the plate! Many people agreed that sharing your time and talents with Toronto’s free community book festival is a great and rewarding experience. We’re now at the half-way point for our volunteer recruitment goal<\/strong>, so if you were thinking about joining the\u00a0team, now’s the time to sign up!<\/p>\n

And on that note, here are 25 More<\/em> Reasons to Volunteer at The Word On The Street<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  1. You’re in a reading rut\u00a0and you need fresh recommendations<\/li>\n
  2. You want to rub shoulders with the literati<\/li>\n
  3. Authors are celebrities you actually want to keep up with (see what I did there?)<\/li>\n
  4. You pride yourself on participating in all the great festivals in Toronto<\/li>\n
  5. Polkaroo will be there!<\/li>\n
  6. You want to say “I volunteered at Canada\u2019s largest book and magazine festival.\u201d This sentence improves most conversations<\/li>\n
  7. You read for pleasure<\/li>\n
  8. Volunteer t-shirts are trophies for a job well done<\/li>\n
  9. You remember going to The Word On The Street as a kid and want to pass on the experience to the next generation<\/li>\n
  10. Shifts are only 4 hours which allows you to help out and<\/em> check out the programming<\/li>\n
  11. We have a partnership with The Revue Cinema which may mean VOLUNTEER MOVIE NIGHT<\/li>\n
  12. You want to support literary initiatives with your time<\/li>\n
  13. The publishing industry has always intrigued you<\/li>\n
  14. You love\u00a0walkie talkies and want to use our radio communication system<\/li>\n
  15. You are a people-person \u2013 \u00a0200,000+ people to be exact<\/li>\n
  16. You keep hearing about this festival and want to know what it\u2019s all about<\/li>\n
  17. You\u00a0want to enjoy an amazing Sunday by the park<\/li>\n
  18. Discovering new books before your friends do is the hip thing to do<\/li>\n
  19. You enjoy being outside<\/li>\n
  20. You need a break from Netflix<\/li>\n
  21. \u2018cuz #CanLit<\/li>\n
  22. It\u2019s the perfect Book Club outing<\/li>\n
  23. Your customer service skills are top notch<\/li>\n
  24. Dionne Brand, Frances Itani, Kenneth Oppel<\/li>\n
  25. Volunteering never gets old<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Interested volunteers can contact Catherine Barandiaran at\u00a0volunteers@thewordonthestreet.ca<\/a>. We look forward to working with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Last month we shared\u00a025 Reasons to Volunteer at The Word On The Street, and as a result our community really stepped up to the plate! Many people agreed that sharing your time and talents with Toronto’s free community book festival is a great and rewarding experience. We’re now at the half-way point for our volunteer […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}