{"id":82174,"date":"2018-08-10T12:41:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T01:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=82174"},"modified":"2018-08-10T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:04:34","slug":"bookshop-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/08\/10\/bookshop-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Your Bookshop Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 11th of August is Love Your Bookshop Day!<\/p>\n<p>Bookshops are places of\u00a0mystery\u00a0and wonder, knowledge and possibility &#8211; gateways into a countless new worlds. For a reader, there no place on earth quite as alluring as a bookshop. There&#8217;s just nothing like the feeling of\u00a0being surrounded by books and knowing that you are among your fellow book-lovers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-82279\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Liane-Mortiarty.jpg\" alt=\"bookshop\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be near a bookshop on Saturday the 11th of August, make sure you go in and appreciate the magic in the air &#8230; that special brand of magic that comes from having lots of books together in one place. Breathe in that book smell and then perhaps treat yourself to a new book? (Or three or four?) And if for some reason you can&#8217;t make it to your local bookshop, or if you live in a rural area without a bookshop nearby, remember that Booktopia is always here for you online!<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0you want to share stories online about your favourite bookshop, don&#8217;t forget to tag\u00a0#loveyourbookshopday using the hashtag #whyIlovemybookshop<\/p>\n<p>And if you really want to feel the love for bookshops, do yourself a favor and watch this video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveyourbookshopday.com.au\/?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=love_your_bookshop_day\">Love Your Bookshop Day<\/a>\u00a0in which authors express all the reasons why they love bookshops &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X5r3PDuKhxs\" width=\"577\" height=\"325\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11th of August is Love Your Bookshop Day! Bookshops are places of\u00a0mystery\u00a0and wonder, knowledge and possibility &#8211; gateways into a countless new worlds. For a reader, there no place on earth quite as alluring as a bookshop. There&#8217;s just nothing like the feeling of\u00a0being surrounded by books and knowing that you are among your fellow book-lovers. If you happen to be near a bookshop on Saturday the 11th of August, make sure you go in and appreciate the magic in the air &#8230; that special brand of magic that comes from having lots of books together in one place. Breathe in that book smell and then perhaps treat yourself to a new book? (Or three or four?) And if for some reason you can&#8217;t make it to your local bookshop, or if you live in a rural area without a bookshop nearby, remember that Booktopia is always here for you online! If\u00a0you want to share stories online about your favourite bookshop, don&#8217;t forget to tag\u00a0#loveyourbookshopday using the hashtag #whyIlovemybookshop And if you really want to feel the love for bookshops, do yourself a favor and watch this video from Love Your Bookshop Day\u00a0in which authors express all the reasons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":82283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[993,9076,9077],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Love-Your-Bookshop-Day-social.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82174"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82299,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82174\/revisions\/82299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}