{"id":2718,"date":"2014-04-03T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xl1916apps.mucampus.ie\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2016-05-24T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:34:47","slug":"v-volunteers-valued-vivacious-vital-vitality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/v-volunteers-valued-vivacious-vital-vitality","title":{"rendered":"V is for Volunteers: Valued, Vivacious and Vital to our Vitality"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><strong>V is for Volunteers: Valued, Vivacious and Vital to our Vitality<\/strong> &#8211; we can&#8217;t agree more!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dublinwritersfestivalblog.wordpress.com\/\">Dublin Writers Festival<\/a> asked three volunteers, Elizabeth, Dorothy and Philip to let us know why it is they choose to volunteer and what attracted them to the\u00a0Dublin Writers Festival\u00a0specifically. Philip Costello also shared his thoughts about volunteering for the Letters 1916 and his interests:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This work has given me an appetite for history so I have been reading up on WW1 and the 1916 Rising. My current reading is\u00a0All in the Blood\u00a0by Geraldine Plunkett Dillon and next up is\u00a01916 What the People Saw\u00a0by Mick O\u2019Farrell.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dublinwritersfestivalblog.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/02\/v-is-for-volunteers-valued-vivacious-and-vital-to-our-vitality\/\">Link<\/a> to the full interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you again Philip for your Valued, Vivacious and Vital contributions to the Letters of 1916 Project!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/philip-costello\/\">Click here <\/a>to read more about Philip Costello.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6774\" src=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/k7642-dwf_web-banner-for-blog-1000-x-200px_v1.jpg\" alt=\"k7642-dwf_web-banner-for-blog-1000-x-200px_v1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/k7642-dwf_web-banner-for-blog-1000-x-200px_v1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/k7642-dwf_web-banner-for-blog-1000-x-200px_v1-300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/k7642-dwf_web-banner-for-blog-1000-x-200px_v1-768x154.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V is for Volunteers: Valued, Vivacious and Vital to our Vitality &#8211; we can&#8217;t agree more! Dublin Writers Festival asked three volunteers, Elizabeth, Dorothy and Philip to let us know why it is they choose to volunteer and what attracted <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/v-volunteers-valued-vivacious-vital-vitality\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  V is for Volunteers: Valued, Vivacious and Vital to our Vitality<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6775,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/6775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}