{"id":2998,"date":"2020-03-09T12:03:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2020-03-10T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:46:45","slug":"paradise-lost-read-a-thon-march-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/paradise-lost-read-a-thon-march-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Lost Read-a-thon (March 21st)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/03\/paradise_lost_19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3000\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/03\/paradise_lost_19-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/03\/paradise_lost_19-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/03\/paradise_lost_19.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join faculty, staff, and students from across the IWU community on March 21st for a full reading of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/20\/20-h\/20-h.htm\"><em>Paradise Lost<\/em><\/a>, one of the longest poems ever written in the English language, and one which the BBC called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20170419-why-paradise-lost-is-one-of-the-worlds-most-important-poems\">a work of unparalleled imaginative genius that shapes English literature even now<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Paradise Lost<\/em> Read-a-Thon is co-sponsored with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/english\/\">Department of English<\/a>, and anyone wishing to take part should send a message to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/english\/faculty\/Diaz.html\">Professor Joanne Diaz<\/a> to sign up for a reading slot (or two, as it is a very long poem) by March 16th.<\/p>\n<p>The read-a-thon will take place on the first floor of the Ames Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join faculty, staff, and students from across the IWU community on March 21st for a full reading of Paradise Lost, one of the longest poems ever written in the English language, and one which the BBC called &#8220;a work of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/paradise-lost-read-a-thon-march-21st\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1038,"featured_media":2999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/03\/ESdU-Z2WAAAraLq.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3001,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}