{"id":1354,"date":"2021-03-04T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2021-02-23T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:35:55","slug":"world-book-day-4-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/03\/04\/world-book-day-4-march\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day 4 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1358 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/more-books-300x115.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/more-books-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/more-books.png 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Because books aren\u2019t just for bedtime<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>World Book Day<\/strong> was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading and is marked in over 100 countries around the globe on the first Thursday in March. This year\u2019s theme is &#8216;Share a story\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It is the perfect opportunity for parents, teachers and children to join together in appreciation of the world of literature and the lifelong pleasure of reading.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1356 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/hug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/hug.jpg 276w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/hug-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/hug-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 85vw, 195px\" \/>For details of how to get involved in this year&#8217;s virtual celebration, please visit www.worldbookday.com\/<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1360\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/yardley-wood-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"176\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1359 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/yardley-wood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And a little plug for the first-ever library, Yardley Wood Library, that I (Ed) visited as a child and which started my lifelong enjoyment of libraries and books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because books aren\u2019t just for bedtime World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading and is marked in over 100 countries around the globe on the first Thursday in March. This year\u2019s theme is &#8216;Share a story\u2019. It is the perfect opportunity for parents, teachers and children to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/03\/04\/world-book-day-4-march\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Book Day 4 March&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}