{"id":16772,"date":"2015-10-29T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=16772"},"modified":"2015-10-29T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:16:04","slug":"lingo-festival-paula-meehan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=16772","title":{"rendered":"Lingo Festival &#8211; Paula Meehan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/paulameehan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16773\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/paulameehan.jpg\" alt=\"paulameehan\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interview with Ireland Professor of Poetry Paula Meehan, given to Near FM in advance of the Lingo Festival 2015. Paula discusses her thoughts on the emergence of the festival and the importance of poetry in all its forms.\u00a0Interview conducted by Paul Loughran.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Stephen James Smith visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/irelandchairofpoetry.org\/current-professor\/\">http:\/\/irelandchairofpoetry.org\/current-professor\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more on Lingo visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingofestival.com\/\">www.lingofestival.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This audio was originally produced and\u00a0broadcast live by Near FM with the support\u00a0of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound and Vision scheme. Thanks to all the staff in The Workman\u2019s Club in Dublin for assisting us with our broadcast<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4761\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/PaulaMeehan.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4761','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/PaulaMeehan.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/PaulaMeehan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=16772-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/PaulaMeehan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"PaulaMeehan.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 5:50 &#8212; 13.4MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with Ireland Professor of Poetry Paula Meehan, given to Near FM in advance of the Lingo Festival 2015. Paula discusses her thoughts on the emergence of the festival and the importance of poetry in all its forms.\u00a0Interview conducted by Paul Loughran. For more on Stephen James Smith visit\u00a0http:\/\/irelandchairofpoetry.org\/current-professor\/ For more on Lingo visit\u00a0www.lingofestival.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4762\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/PaulaMeehan.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4762','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/PaulaMeehan.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/PaulaMeehan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=16772-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/PaulaMeehan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"PaulaMeehan.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 5:50 &#8212; 13.4MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3881],"tags":[3924,3867,2148,2379,3885],"class_list":["post-16772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-2","category-lingo","tag-ireland-professor-of-poetry","tag-lingo-festival","tag-near-fm","tag-paula-meehan","tag-spoken-word-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16774,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772\/revisions\/16774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}