{"id":517148,"date":"2026-07-09T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/517148\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:43:10","slug":"big-book-of-magical-manx-tales-competition-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/517148\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Book of Magical Manx Tales competition to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 9 July 2026 06:21\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/316228-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Robert Cowley<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            First edition sold out within two weeks\n        <\/p>\n<p>A creative writing competition for Island youngsters is making its return this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u00a0aged six to 13 will be asked to\u00a0produce a short bedtime story with up to four illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>The first edition of the\u00a0Big Book of Magical Manx Tales sold out within two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Author, and retired maths teacher, Robert Cowley is spearheading the book&#8217;s production with all proceeds going to charity:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 9 July 2026 06:21 Picture credit: Robert Cowley First edition sold out within two weeks A creative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,8619,10197,10204,24231,157,111,43,139,69,24232],"class_list":["post-517148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-presenters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}