{"id":251,"date":"2006-11-26T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2006-11-26T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T08:01:09","slug":"featured-poet-at-bell-arts-factory-ventura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/251-featured-poet-at-bell-arts-factory-ventura.html","title":{"rendered":"Featured Poet at Bell Arts Factory, Ventura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width='87' height='110' style=\"float: left;border: 0px;padding-left: 5px;padding-right: 5px\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/bellarts.serendipityThumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>I had a great time at the &#8220;Friday On Saturday&#8221; reading at the <a href=\"\/plugin\/tags\/Bell+Arts+Factory\">Bell Arts Factory<\/a> tonight. The open mic was one strong poem after another. I read about a dozen poems, mostly newer work including poems from my application to <a href=\"\/plugin\/tags\/Pacific+University\">Pacific<\/a>. I felt well received and appreciated the opportunity to read as a featured poet again (I have been on hiatus for over four years). People hung around long after the evening officially ended, enjoying the coffee and cookies. <\/p>\n<p>The series will take a break in December and January, so I will looking forward to more great evenings of poetry starting up again in February. Thanks to Friday Lubina for another great event, and also to my sister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidco.com\/blogs\/lisa\/\">Lisa Peake<\/a> for putting up fliers in Ventura and Ojai to let people know about the reading. I met some new poets and poetry fans tonight, and appreciate the community support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great time at the &#8220;Friday On Saturday&#8221; reading at the Bell Arts Factory tonight. The open mic was one strong poem after another. I read about a dozen poems, mostly newer work including poems from my application to Pacific. I felt well received and appreciated the opportunity to read as a featured &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/251-featured-poet-at-bell-arts-factory-ventura.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Featured Poet at Bell Arts Factory, Ventura<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1268,5,9],"tags":[91,421,529],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}