{"id":421,"date":"2025-11-28T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/?p=421"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:30:53","slug":"give-the-gift-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/2025\/11\/28\/give-the-gift-of-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Give the Gift of Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>&#8216;A book is a gift you can open again and again&#8217; (Garrison Keillor)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/11\/christmas-books.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-422\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/11\/christmas-books.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/11\/christmas-books-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Amid all the glittery excitement and festive feasting, please remember to make time for a story or two \u2013 maybe you will be lucky enough to unwrap a good book for Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A book is a gift you can open again and again&#8217; (Garrison Keillor) Amid all the glittery excitement and festive feasting, please remember to make time for a story or two \u2013 maybe you will be lucky enough to unwrap a good book for Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}