{"id":15589,"date":"2025-10-22T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15589\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:45:05","slug":"straz-to-welcome-david-sedaris-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15589\/","title":{"rendered":"Straz to welcome David Sedaris | Diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 Humorist David Sedaris will take the stage on Thursday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m., in Ferguson Hall at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets start at $70.75. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/strazcenter.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strazcenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sedaris will be presenting readings from his first children\u2019s book, \u201cPretty Ugly.\u201d He\u2019ll likely draw from his most recent book of fiction, \u201cHappy-Go-Lucky\u201d as well as new, unpublished work. Sedaris has been a frequent contributor to NPR and The New Yorker, and a favorite of Straz audiences as well. Book signings will precede and follow the reading. Books will be available for sale at the event, courtesy of Oxford Exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Humorist David Sedaris will take the stage on Thursday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m., in Ferguson Hall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13447,276,5168,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-15589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-david-sedaris","9":"tag-hillsborough-county","10":"tag-straz-center","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}