{"id":242770,"date":"2026-09-09T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/calendar\/?post_type=event&#038;p=242770"},"modified":"2026-09-10T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:33:13","slug":"amy-speace-the-cardinals-with-melissa-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/calendar\/event\/amy-speace-the-cardinals-with-melissa-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Speace: The Cardinals (with Melissa Shepherd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"custom_featured_image\" style=\"display:none;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/09\/amy-speac.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" \/><\/div><p>Amy\u2019s debut collection of poetry The Cardinals (Red Hen Press, Sept 1, 2026), is a lyrical investigation of marriage, divorce, mothering, and mysticism told through poems that read like intimate conversations but evoke the complexities of love and loss through the natural world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy\u2019s debut collection of poetry The Cardinals (Red Hen Press, Sept 1, 2026), is a lyrical investigation of marriage, divorce, mothering, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":242771,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","submission_name":"Kate Jacobs","email_address":"kate@littlecitybook.com","business_name":"Little City Books","event_location":"100 bloomfield st, Hoboken,  New Jersey  07030,  US","event_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/amy-speace-the-cardinals-with-melissa-shepherd-tickets-1996246832012?aff=oddtdtcreator","event_price":"$10","featured_event":"","event_total":"0","event_coupon":"","event_start_date":"20260924","event_start_time":"7:00 pm","event_start_timestamp":"1790276400","event_end_date":"20260924","event_end_time":"8:00 pm","event_end_timestamp":"1790280000","event_duration":"","event_recurrence_end_timestamp":"1790280000","event_repeat_frequency":"","event_repeat_ends":"","event_repeat_date":"","event_repeat_occurrences":"1","event_image":"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/gravity_forms\/1-c9c15c27bae22ce0ab616a57254037ee\/2026\/09\/amy-speac.jpg","all_day_event":"0","venue_name":"Little City Books","admin_city":"Hoboken","wp_last_modified_info":"September 10, 2026 @ 2:33 pm","event_import_post_id":"","source_guid":""},"categories":[25,23,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242770","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-the-hoboken-girl","category-the-new-jersey-girl"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.3 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - 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