{"id":741,"date":"2009-05-04T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-to-visit-oxfam-bookshop-volunteers\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T11:59:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T06:59:18","slug":"pullman-to-visit-oxfam-bookshop-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-to-visit-oxfam-bookshop-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman to visit Oxfam bookshop volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Pullman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/4341174.Authors_will_tell_tales_for_Oxfam\/\">plans to visit volunteers<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\">Oxfam<\/a> bookshop in St Giles, Oxford, as part of the Ox-Tales event in which well-known authors will read their latest stories at an Oxford theatre to raise money for the charity.<\/p>\n<p>Pullman said, &#8220;As someone who has shopped in Oxfam bookshops and supported Oxfam\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s work for years, I was delighted to hear about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/books\">Bookfest<\/a>, which is a brilliant idea. It will give book lovers all over the country the chance to indulge their deepest passion, while helping to change lives for the better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nihal Alahendra, manager of the shop, said: &#8220;Bookfest will be a sustained effort to promote books, literacy and Oxfam throughout the year. I hope this will be a springboard to make Bookfest an annual event, and we&#8217;re looking forward to Philip Pullman coming to the store. He will meet our volunteers, who will show him what happens behind the scenes in the shop.&#8221; Thanks to blacksatindancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Pullman plans to visit volunteers at the Oxfam bookshop in St Giles, Oxford, as part of the Ox-Tales event in which well-known authors will read their latest stories at an Oxford theatre to raise money for the charity. Pullman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-to-visit-oxfam-bookshop-volunteers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oxford","category-philip-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}