{"id":1310,"date":"2013-10-06T12:50:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T11:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2013-10-06T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T11:50:50","slug":"cheltenham-literature-festival-free-tickets-for-douglas-coupland-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2013\/10\/06\/cheltenham-literature-festival-free-tickets-for-douglas-coupland-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheltenham Literature Festival &#8211; Free tickets for Douglas Coupland tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/douglas_coupland_photo_of_author.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/douglas_coupland_photo_of_author.jpg?resize=220%2C268&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Douglas_Coupland_Photo_of_Author\" width=\"220\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1311\" \/><\/a>A cult Canadaian author is appearing at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, and this time we&#8217;re not talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2013\/09\/30\/keevil-v-johnston-the-event-in-the-tent-tuesday-8th-october\/\" title=\"Keevil V Johnston: The Event in the Tent \u2013 Tuesday 8th\u00a0October\">Tyler Keevil&#8217;s gig this Tuesday<\/a>: Douglas Coupland, the author of international bestseller <em>Generation X<\/em>, is on a rare visit from Canada to discuss his new book, <em>Worst.Person.Ever<\/em>, described as \u2018a deeply satirical book about a dreadful human being with no redeeming value.\u2019 He\u2019ll be talking at The Inkpot, Imperial Square, Cheltenham, at 8pm TONIGHT (Sunday 6th October), and <a href=\"https:\/\/infonet.glos.ac.uk\/newsandevents\/news\/Lists\/Posts\/Post.aspx?ID=1649\" target=\"_blank\">tickets are free with UoG student ID<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are loads of other events at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, one or two of which even feature writers. So do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheltenhamfestivals.com\/literature\/\" target=\"_blank\">check out the full programme<\/a>. University of Gloucestershire students are entitled to a 50% discount on ticket prices and can benefit from other offers (including, somewhat strangely, the chance to see Johnny Vegas for a fiver). <a href=\"https:\/\/infonet.glos.ac.uk\/newsandevents\/news\/Lists\/Posts\/Post.aspx?ID=1630\" target=\"_blank\">See here for more information<\/a>: .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cult Canadaian author is appearing at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, and this time we&#8217;re not talking about Tyler Keevil&#8217;s gig this Tuesday: Douglas Coupland, the author of international bestseller Generation X, is on a rare visit from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,75,106,203,287,376],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cheltenham","tag-cheltenham-literature-festival","tag-douglas-coupland","tag-local-events","tag-prose","tag-tyler-keevil"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}