{"id":208304,"date":"2026-06-02T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208304\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:44:10","slug":"the-big-malarkey-childrens-reading-festival-returns-to-hull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208304\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Malarkey children&#8217;s reading festival returns to Hull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A children&#8217;s literature festival is returning to Hull for its ninth year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Big Malarkey Festival will see authors, artists, dancers, musicians and theatre companies fill East Park during its main event on 20 and 21 June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of this year&#8217;s &#8216;It&#8217;s a Mystery&#8217; theme, children will be able to solve puzzles, don disguises and explore some of Hull&#8217;s best mysteries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Jackie Dad said: &#8220;It is a festival not just about reading, but about ideas, imagination, creativity and performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A children&#8217;s literature festival is returning to Hull for its ninth year. The Big Malarkey Festival will see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-208304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}