{"id":4303,"date":"2015-11-06T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2015-11-06T14:39:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:39:33","slug":"amity-writers-inspire-a-special-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/amity-writers-inspire-a-special-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Amity Writers Inspire a Special Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4304\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5151-Version-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4304\" class=\"wp-image-4304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5151-Version-2.jpg\" alt=\"Writers at Amity Regional High School, Woodbridge, CT, October 29, 1995\" width=\"450\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5151-Version-2.jpg 3031w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5151-Version-2-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5151-Version-2-450x296.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5151-Version-2-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5151-Version-2-900x592.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writers at Amity Regional High School, Woodbridge, CT, October 29,\u00a02015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a great pleasure for me to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amityregion5.org\" target=\"_blank\">Amity Regional High School<\/a> last week and exchange ideas with students about how and why we write. It was clear from the minute I met the students that they were genuinely fascinated by the writing process, and throughout our workshop, they were honest and respectful about each other\u2019s work. I was impressed and inspired by their creativity, generosity, and willingness to take risks. Many thanks to the students, and to librarian Cara McConnell for inviting me and welcoming me so warmly. I am especially grateful to the <a href=\"http:\/\/jamiehulleyartsfund.org\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie A. Hulley Arts Foundation<\/a>\u00a0for sponsoring my visit, and for the honor of continuing Jamie\u2019s legacy.\u00a0I\u2019ll cherish my memories of this shared afternoon among fellow writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a great pleasure for me to visit Amity Regional High School last week and exchange ideas with students about how and why we write. It was clear from the minute I met the students that they were genuinely fascinated by the writing process, and throughout our workshop, they were honest and respectful about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4308,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}