{"id":90336,"date":"2025-08-23T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90336\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:00:17","slug":"reading-into-book-clubs-abc-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90336\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Into Book Clubs &#8211; ABC listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book clubs first started to appear around 100 years ago, and they&#8217;re still around. But have they changed much?<br \/>If you are in a book club, you&#8217;d know that it&#8217;s about so much more than books.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the people, the connections, and the continuing conversations about big ideas, not small talk.<\/p>\n<p>We get into the history of book clubs with Professor David Carter and children&#8217;s author and book club founder Aisla Wild give us the reasons people keep joining them (and keep showing up).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Book clubs first started to appear around 100 years ago, and they&#8217;re still around. But have they changed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,67165,457,134,5584,3755,7994,67166],"class_list":["post-90336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bookclubs","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-literature","tag-podcast","tag-reading","tag-the-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}