{"id":13290,"date":"2017-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/sogur-og-ljod-i-sundi\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:00:08","slug":"stories-and-poems-in-the-swimming-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/sogur-og-ljod-i-sundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories and poems in swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>It's a lovely thought to lie in the pool and read.<br \/>\nThis week, poems and short stories are on display at the swimming pools of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<br \/>\nby pupils in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's primary schools. The poems and stories are displayed in the swimming pools for the occasion of the Children's Book and Film Festival in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, which is currently taking place.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The authors of the illustrated poems are pupils in Year 5.<br \/>\nHafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's primary schools. The newly composed poems introduce the students' perspectives to<br \/>\nof the swimming pools, the water and the life in the pools. The short stories that lie on display in<br \/>\nThe stories in the logs are by pupils in the 8th to 10th grades of the primary schools. This concerns<br \/>\nstories that were shortlisted in a short story competition held annually for<br \/>\nPupils in the primary schools of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Emphasis is placed on the stories being short.<br \/>\nand concise, and this year they all begin with either sentence<br \/>\n\u201eLast summer I got into a completely incredible case...\u201c or \u201eHe\/she was sitting by<br \/>\nthe window and looked out to sea\u2026\u201c A specially appointed panel of judges selected from the stories and said<br \/>\ngenerally, that the stories demonstrated good narrative skills, and were diverse<br \/>\nin terms of input and demonstrated diversity of subject matter. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Residents and other visitors are encouraged to look for the poems and<br \/>\nStories in the swimming pools of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, lying there in the sunshine and reading. Children's literature<br \/>\nThe town's swimming pools are part of the Children's Book and Film Festival, which is currently taking place.<br \/>\nThis week in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The purpose of the festival is to encourage children's interest in reading.<br \/>\nand the festival supports the literacy projects of the town's nursery and primary schools which in<br \/>\nThe past few terms have been a walk.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00dea\u00f0 er hugguleg tilhugsun a\u00f0 liggja \u00ed lauginni og lesa. \u00deessa vikuna liggja frammi \u00ed sundlaugum Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6jar lj\u00f3\u00f0 og sm\u00e1s\u00f6gur eftir nemendur \u00ed grunnsk\u00f3lum Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar.&nbsp;Lj\u00f3\u00f0in og s\u00f6gurnar eru settar upp \u00ed laugunum \u00ed tilefni af B\u00f3ka- og b\u00ed\u00f3h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0 barnanna \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i sem n\u00fa stendur yfir. H\u00f6fundar myndskreyttra lj\u00f3\u00f0a eru nemendur \u00ed 5. bekkjum grunnsk\u00f3la Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13290"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}