{"id":214900,"date":"2025-12-28T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214900\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:28:08","slug":"former-manx-bard-keen-to-see-more-hopeful-version-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214900\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Manx Bard keen to see ‘more hopeful version’ of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Sunday, 28 December 2025 10:15\n <\/p>\n

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\n Picture credit: The Manx Bard<\/p>\n

\n Poet’s new book reflects on experiences working with homeless community\n <\/p>\n

The eighth Manx Bard believes people want a ‘more hopeful version of what the world could be’.<\/p>\n

Michael Manning has recently published a collection of poems drawing on his experience working with the Island’s homeless community.<\/p>\n

He says public opinion can often be dominated by anger, hatred and despair.<\/p>\n

But, he’s in favour of a more optimistic approach:<\/p>\n

Listen to this audio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 28 December 2025 10:15 Picture credit: The Manx Bard Poet’s new book reflects on experiences working with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,19531,61,60,19528,19529,19530,278,43,1342],"class_list":["post-214900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}