{"id":20114,"date":"2015-04-19T01:19:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T08:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20114"},"modified":"2015-04-19T01:19:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T08:19:01","slug":"book-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/book-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/labook.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Times Festival of Books\u00a0(http:\/\/events.latimes.com\/festivalofbooks\/) is going on this weekend &#8212; April 18-19, 2015. \u00a0Book fans can meet celebrities, participate in activities, lectures, eat foods and watch the USC marching band. Among the authors is L.A.&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/richard-riordan.html\">former mayor Richard Riordan<\/a>, actor Gavin MacLeod, Scooby-Doo and the Festival Phantom, Candice Bergen and many more entertainers and authors. If you miss the fantastic event at USC campus, there are other literary opportunities coming to California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Festivals 2015:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Independent Bookstore Day &#8212; May 2, 2015. Launched in California, this event is now a national festival! cabookstoreday.com<\/li>\n<li>Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley June 6-7, 2015 \u00a0baybookfest.org<\/li>\n<li>Orange County Children&#8217;s Book Festival Oct. 4, 2015 kidsbookfestival.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book Festivals 2016:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pasadena&#8217;s International Antiquariun Book Festival Feb. 12-14, 2015 \u00a0cabookfair.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times Festival of Books\u00a0(http:\/\/events.latimes.com\/festivalofbooks\/) is going on this weekend &#8212; April 18-19, 2015. \u00a0Book fans can meet celebrities, participate in activities, lectures, eat foods and watch the USC marching band. Among the authors is L.A.&#8217;s former mayor Richard Riordan, actor Gavin MacLeod, Scooby-Doo and the Festival Phantom, Candice Bergen and many more entertainers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/20114"}],"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=20114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}