{"id":2496,"date":"2014-09-19T21:20:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T21:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontowots.wordpress.com\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:29:26","slug":"the-word-on-the-street-in-conversation-with-great-canadian-authors-shani-mootoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/the-word-on-the-street-in-conversation-with-great-canadian-authors-shani-mootoo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word On The Street in Conversation with Great Canadian Authors: Shani Mootoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coinciding with the festival\u2019s 25th anniversary this Sunday, September 21st, The Word On The Street presents a series of pre-festival interviews with bestselling authors. Enjoy their reflections on 25 amazing years of celebrating reading!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we shared interviews with Craig Davidson, Robert Rotenberg, and\u00a0Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/106618777\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"In Conversation with Shani Mootoo\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shani Mootoo, recently longlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize for <em>Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab,\u00a0<\/em>reflects on discovery, and the stories of change that inspire her writing.<\/p>\n<p>Mootoo will be appearing at the Amazon.ca Bestsellers Stage at 12:00 PM, the Great Books Marquee at 1:45 PM, and at the Sculpting New Reads Tent at 3:00 PM, on Sunday September 21st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinciding with the festival\u2019s 25th anniversary this Sunday, September 21st, The Word On The Street presents a series of pre-festival interviews with bestselling authors. Enjoy their reflections on 25 amazing years of celebrating reading! Yesterday we shared interviews with Craig Davidson, Robert Rotenberg, and\u00a0Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. Shani Mootoo, recently longlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/the-word-on-the-street-in-conversation-with-great-canadian-authors-shani-mootoo\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}