{"id":1428,"date":"2023-08-07T19:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/arya-shahi\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T23:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:58:15","slug":"arya-shahi","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/arya-shahi\/","title":{"rendered":"Arya Shahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Arya Shahi<\/b> is an Iranian American playwright, poet, and rapper. He is the cofounder of PigPen Theatre Co., an award-winning theater company and band. With PigPen, Arya has written, directed, and performed in original plays as well as books adapted for stage. Arya lives in Los Angeles. His debut young adult novel is\u00a0<em>An Impossible Thing to Say.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1430\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Shahi_An-Impossible-Thing-to-Say_impossiblethingts-Elise-Wyatt-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Shahi_An-Impossible-Thing-to-Say_impossiblethingts-Elise-Wyatt-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Shahi_An-Impossible-Thing-to-Say_impossiblethingts-Elise-Wyatt-575x869.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Shahi_An-Impossible-Thing-to-Say_impossiblethingts-Elise-Wyatt-380x574.jpg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Shahi_An-Impossible-Thing-to-Say_impossiblethingts-Elise-Wyatt.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arya Shahi is an Iranian American playwright, poet, and rapper. He is the cofounder of PigPen Theatre Co., an award-winning theater company and band. With PigPen, Arya has written, directed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1429,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1428\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}