{"id":2346,"date":"2014-08-13T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T14:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontowots.wordpress.com\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:49:58","slug":"friend-an-author-at-the-word-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/friend-an-author-at-the-word-on-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend an Author at The Word On The Street!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a non-profit organization, The Word On The Street relies on the support of our community to continue to bring a free and 100% Canadian literary festival to Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s festival takes place along Queen\u2019s Park Circle on Sunday, September 21, but leading up to the big day there&#8217;s another great way to get involved and support the festival!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Back by popular demand: Friend An Author<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nFriend An Author<\/strong> is a yearly fundraising campaign, hosted by The Word On The Street Canada in cooperation with The Word On The Street Toronto.\u00a0 It provides literary lovers like you with a unique way to show your support for both the Festival and our wonderful Canadian authors.<\/p>\n<p>For $100, participants in the <a href=\"..\/..\/toronto\/support-us\/friend-an-author\/\">Friend An Author\u00a0<\/a>program receive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The chance\u00a0to friend an author of your choice from the provided\u00a0list of available authors<\/li>\n<li>A copy of the book with the opportunity to have it signed by the author at the festival after their reading!<\/li>\n<li>Recognition for your contribution at the festival. Your name will be announced on stage by the host prior to your author\u2019s reading<\/li>\n<li>Recognition in the 2015 Official Festival Program<\/li>\n<li>A tax receipt for your charitable contribution<\/li>\n<li>A unique and memorable way to show support for Canadian literature and Canada\u2019s largest one-day literary festival!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Participating authors in 2014 include<strong> Robyn Doolittle, Kenneth Oppel, Dan Riskin, Russell Wangersky, Andrew\u00a0Pyper\u00a0<\/strong>and many more! Full details can be found\u00a0on our website <a href=\"..\/..\/toronto\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a non-profit organization, The Word On The Street relies on the support of our community to continue to bring a free and 100% Canadian literary festival to Toronto. This year\u2019s festival takes place along Queen\u2019s Park Circle on Sunday, September 21, but leading up to the big day there&#8217;s another great way to get <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/friend-an-author-at-the-word-on-the-street\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346"}],"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=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2767,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}