{"id":1200,"date":"2010-02-03T09:22:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T01:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2010-08-11T12:05:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T04:05:03","slug":"alexander-mccall-smith-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/03\/alexander-mccall-smith-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander McCall Smith in Singapore!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1151\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/young-writers-seminar-and-a-submission\/theliterary\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,80\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"theliterary\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1151 aligncenter\" title=\"theliterary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary-300x60.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Meet the best-selling author of <strong>The No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency<\/strong> and catch an exclusive private screening of the adapted HBO TV series (premiering in August on StarHub Channel 60).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>7pm: Book talk and Q&amp;A<br \/>\n7.30pm: Autograph session<br \/>\n8pm: Private screening of the first episode of The No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency HBO TV series<br \/>\n(Note: Attendees to sign in and be seated by 6.50pm.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Date: <\/strong>Monday, February 8<br \/>\n<strong> Time: <\/strong>7pm &#8211; 9pm<br \/>\n<strong> Venue:<\/strong> Multipurpose Room, National Library Building, Victoria Street<br \/>\n<strong> Admission:<\/strong> Free (To register, email <a href=\"mailto:marketing@penguinbooks.com.sg\">marketing@penguinbooks.com.sg<\/a> with the subject heading &#8220;AMS RSVP&#8221;. Your reservation is confirmed unless otherwise notified.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>IS THAT COOL OR WHAT? (The answer is &#8220;cool&#8221; not &#8220;what&#8221;.) RSVP them by giving your name and contact number!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winnahisme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1201\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/03\/alexander-mccall-smith-in-singapore\/winnahisme\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winnahisme.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,424\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A winner is me!\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winnahisme.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1201\" title=\"A winner is me!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winnahisme-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winnahisme-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winnahisme.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I haven&#8217;t read the series but Rozen (not her real name), our editor, is a fan of it and I keep meaning to get to read but never got the time to do so since the plot is the type of book I&#8217;d usually read! Since he&#8217;s coming, I decided to go have a read of it, but first I NEEDED TO FIND IT. Apparently somehow the books are disappearing.<\/p>\n<p>Probably cause there&#8217;s people finding out about his appearance in Singapore too. It <em>always<\/em> happens like that for various author appearances when they come to Singapore. I only managed to get a copy at Borders. In any case what better way to get into a book than by going to the session and meet the author himself? Heh.<\/p>\n<p>See you guys there if any of you readers are going!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency and catch an exclusive private screening of the adapted HBO TV series (premiering in August on StarHub Channel 60). 7pm: Book talk and Q&amp;A 7.30pm: Autograph session 8pm: Private screening of the first episode of The No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency HBO TV series &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/03\/alexander-mccall-smith-in-singapore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alexander McCall Smith in Singapore!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[39,11,43,27],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-literary","tag-nlb","tag-talk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-jm","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}