{"id":93,"date":"2014-06-23T07:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T07:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=93"},"modified":"2015-03-25T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T12:24:24","slug":"dr-burgass-at-the-stoke-literary-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/06\/23\/dr-burgass-at-the-stoke-literary-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Burgass at the Stoke Literary Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Burgass presented her paper &#8216;Pits, Pots and Poets&#8217; on regional writing and Stoke&#8217;s literary heritage to a sell-out crowd at the inaugural Stoke Literary Festival (21st June).\u00a0 Organised by Emma Bridgewater and Tristram Hunt MP, other speakers included the &#8216;aga saga&#8217; novelist Joanna Trollope and leading cultural commentator Melvyn Bragg.\u00a0 (Catherine&#8217;s daughter Eleanor won a short-story prize in the associated &#8216;Too Write&#8217; competition.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2014\/10\/c-burgass-stoke-festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-92 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2014\/10\/c-burgass-stoke-festival-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"c burgass stoke festival\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2014\/10\/c-burgass-stoke-festival-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2014\/10\/c-burgass-stoke-festival-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2014\/10\/c-burgass-stoke-festival.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokeliteraryfestival.org\/dr-catherine-burgass-discusses-pits-pots-and-poets\/\">http:\/\/www.stokeliteraryfestival.org\/dr-catherine-burgass-discusses-pits-pots-and-poets\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Burgass presented her paper &#8216;Pits, Pots and Poets&#8217; on regional writing and Stoke&#8217;s literary heritage to a sell-out crowd at the inaugural Stoke Literary Festival (21st June).\u00a0 Organised by Emma Bridgewater and Tristram Hunt MP, other speakers included the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/06\/23\/dr-burgass-at-the-stoke-literary-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3710,3626],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}