{"id":72607,"date":"2016-03-17T07:38:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T11:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=72607"},"modified":"2016-03-17T07:38:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T11:38:41","slug":"divergent-author-anxious-meet-fans-bookcon-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/03\/17\/divergent-author-anxious-meet-fans-bookcon-may\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Divergent\u2019 author anxious to meet fans at BookCon in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VeronicaRoth\/status\/573947300688482304\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/VeronicaRoth\/status\/573947300688482304<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013 \u201cDivergent\u201d author Veronica Roth won\u2019t have to travel far to attend this year\u2019s BookCon.<\/p>\n<p>Roth is a native of Chicago, the setting for the third annual fan-based publishing event, the book world\u2019s version of Comic Con. The event takes place May 14 at McCormick Place. Roth told The Associated Press during a recent email interview that meeting readers was \u201can essential part of what makes writing meaningful\u201d for her.<\/p>\n<p>The film version of \u201cAllegiant,\u201d the second of her \u201cDivergent\u201d trilogy, comes out Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 \u201cDivergent\u201d author Veronica Roth won\u2019t have to travel far to attend this year\u2019s BookCon. Roth is a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080],"class_list":["post-72607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle","tag-ap","mauthors-hillel-italie","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}