{"id":6724,"date":"2017-12-21T12:49:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T19:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=6724"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T20:10:46","slug":"have-a-bookish-merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2017\/12\/21\/have-a-bookish-merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a Bookish Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May the holidays and 2018 bring you many good reads!<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for some ideas, here is a link to the best books of 2017 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/np99-24-2-best-books-of-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>National Post.<\/em><\/a> The <a href=\"https:\/\/49thshelf.com\/Lists\/Members\/2017-47\/Award-winning-fiction-in-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">49th Shelf<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/picklemethis.com\/2017\/12\/10\/2017-books-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kerry Clare<\/a>\u00a0also have some suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland has the neatest Christmas tradition! Did you know about J\u00f3lab\u00f3kafl\u00f3\u00f0 or <a href=\"http:\/\/theanthrotorian.com\/culture\/2016\/12\/23\/the-christmas-book-flood-hits-iceland-the-beautiful-tradition-of-giving-books-as-gifts-on-christmas-eve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The book flood of Christmas&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if you are stuck at the airport and looking for something shorter than a book, the Edmonton International Airport has a <a href=\"http:\/\/flyeia.com\/shop-dine-relax\/relax\/short-edition-short-story-dispenser#sm.0001fzee66cdaelaqvo1txyas8a34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">short story dispenser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/holeinthebucket.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/book-tree2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8866\" src=\"https:\/\/holeinthebucket.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/book-tree2.jpg?w=468\" alt=\"\" width=\"729\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See you in 2018!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the holidays and 2018 bring you many good reads! If you are looking for some ideas, here is a link to the best books of 2017 in the National Post. The 49th Shelf and\u00a0Kerry Clare\u00a0also have some suggestions. Iceland has the neatest Christmas tradition! Did you know about J\u00f3lab\u00f3kafl\u00f3\u00f0 or &#8220;The book flood of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-light-hearted","category-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions\/6725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}