{"id":247745,"date":"2026-04-27T00:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247745\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T00:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:24:09","slug":"tallahassees-word-of-south-festival-continues-a-tradition-of-literary-and-musical-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247745\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee&#8217;s Word of South Festival continues a tradition of literary and musical excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite some passing rain showers on Saturday, Tallahassee&#8217;s 11th Word of South Festival brought tens of thousands of people to Cascades Park over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Earth, Wind and Fire packed the Adderley Amphitheater Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Among Saturday&#8217;s offerings was readings of poetry by Appalachian authors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She swats at flies and zips a stream of tobacco juice into a Coke bottle, stares at me&#8230;&#8217;What you gonna be when you grow up? Yourself, or like all the rest of &#8217;em?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then Funkmeister and Tallahassee hometown hero George Clinton and his band had everyone dancing Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee Writers Association Board Member Liz Jameson says she thinks the event was a success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes Tallahassee what Tallahassee is and I think it&#8217;s the best thing in town, the best bargain in town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 2015, the Word of South Festival remains a unique blend of musical and literary creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite some passing rain showers on Saturday, Tallahassee&#8217;s 11th Word of South Festival brought tens of thousands of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-247745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247745","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=247745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}