{"id":6800,"date":"2017-09-21T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2017-09-19T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T21:45:24","slug":"freeversefest-charlestons-first-poetry-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/freeversefest-charlestons-first-poetry-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"#FREEVERSEFEST: Charleston&#8217;s First Poetry Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uCF5SmY0lGM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><center><\/center><\/center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6802 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/marus_xlarge-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"marus_xlarge\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/marus_xlarge-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/marus_xlarge.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/>Marcus Amaker, Charleston&#8217;s first poet laureate is spearheading\u00a0the Lowcountry&#8217;s first ever poetry festival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Free Verse Festival is the City of Charleston, SC\u2019s first poetry festival. Our mission is to uplift the community by providing eclectic poetry events and workshops at multiple venues in Downtown and West Ashley. We\u2019ll collaborate with the Charleston County School District to put poets in schools and promote the power of the written word.\u00a0We\u2019ll also treat poetry as public art, putting poems on sidewalks, napkins, t-shirts, billboards, buses and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>MORE DETAILS:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeversefestival.com\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.freeversefestival.com<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>#FREEVERSEFESTIVAL<br \/>\n#FREEVERSEFEST<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6805\" style=\"width: 741px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/freeverseletter3-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6805 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/freeverseletter3-1-741x1024.jpg\" alt=\"[click to enlarge]\" width=\"741\" height=\"1024\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/freeverseletter3-1-741x1024.jpg 741w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/freeverseletter3-1-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/freeverseletter3-1-600x829.jpg 600w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/freeverseletter3-1.jpg 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 741px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 741\/1024;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[click to enlarge]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Amaker, Charleston&#8217;s first poet laureate is spearheading\u00a0the Lowcountry&#8217;s first ever poetry festival. &#8220;The Free Verse Festival is the City of Charleston,<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/freeversefest-charlestons-first-poetry-festival\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":6801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2,19,39,10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7668,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions\/7668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}