{"id":23031,"date":"2015-11-10T20:12:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T04:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=23031"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:42:37","slug":"reading-with-lauren-kessler-raising-the-barre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/reading-with-lauren-kessler-raising-the-barre\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading with Lauren Kessler: Raising the Barre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/reading-with-lauren-kessler-raising-the-barre\/t5952_books_lkesslert_e-blast\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23032\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-23032\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/t5952_books_lkesslert_e-blast.png\" alt=\"t5952_books_lkesslert_e-blast\" width=\"381\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/t5952_books_lkesslert_e-blast.png 645w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/t5952_books_lkesslert_e-blast-150x106.png 150w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/t5952_books_lkesslert_e-blast-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a>Global Scholars Great Hall<br \/>\n1710 E. 15th Ave.<br \/>\nUO campus<\/p>\n<p>The UO Bookstore presents a reading, signing and reception with<a href=\"http:\/\/laurenkessler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Lauren Kessler<\/a>, featuring her latest book, <em>Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker<\/em>. The event also includes a short performance by The Eugene Youth Ballet.<\/p>\n<p>Kessler is a professor in the UO School of Journalism and Communication and the author of seven other books of narrative nonfiction, including the Oregon Book Award winner <em>Stubborn Twig<\/em>. She is a member of the advisory group for the <a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/events-2\/2014-nwws\/2016-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cosponsors\u00a0 of this reading include the Eugene Ballet Company and the UO Department of Dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Scholars Great Hall 1710 E. 15th Ave. UO campus The UO Bookstore presents a reading, signing and reception with Lauren Kessler, featuring her latest book, Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts and My Midlife Quest to Dance the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/reading-with-lauren-kessler-raising-the-barre\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,36,17,171,173],"tags":[133,158],"class_list":["post-23031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-faculty-affiliates","category-literature","category-women-writers","tag-lauren-kessler","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33023,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031\/revisions\/33023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}