{"id":15991,"date":"2014-04-08T00:38:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T07:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15991"},"modified":"2014-04-08T00:38:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T07:38:37","slug":"festival-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/festival-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/labook.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured are Valerie Bertinelli, crowds in line and Carol Burnett at a Los Angeles Times annual Festival of Books.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re an actor, homeless, a victim, a hero, or have been abducted by aliens, \u00a0there&#8217;s a story\u00a0(whatever your situation)\u00a0waiting to be written\u00a0and only one way to get it out&#8230; write a book! \u00a0You&#8217;ll witness the book&#8217;s popularity at the free admission LA Times Festival of Books April 12 &amp; 13, 2014 on the USC campus in Los Angeles. From celebrity actors to celebrity chefs, kids&#8217; authors, famous cartoon characters, poets and politicians, the event features something and a book for every interest under the sun. \u00a0Around 150,000 people attend the two-day book extravaganza. Yes, it&#8217;s a little crowded, but it&#8217;s one of the best free things to see in the L.A. area this weekend. Note: Some of the special dinner shows and seminars charge a fee. See:\u00a0http:\/\/events.latimes.com\/festivalofbooks\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-bookstores.html\">California Bookstore Day<\/a> on May 3, 2014 celebrates independent booksellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured are Valerie Bertinelli, crowds in line and Carol Burnett at a Los Angeles Times annual Festival of Books. Whether you&#8217;re an actor, homeless, a victim, a hero, or have been abducted by aliens, \u00a0there&#8217;s a story\u00a0(whatever your situation)\u00a0waiting to be written\u00a0and only one way to get it out&#8230; write a book! \u00a0You&#8217;ll witness the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}