{"id":143,"date":"2007-06-28T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2007-06-28T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T20:24:00","slug":"book-tour-blogging-stop-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/06\/28\/book-tour-blogging-stop-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Tour Blogging, Stop Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RoQLh3JfoXI\/AAAAAAAAAMw\/E8Fz-SMTrIw\/s1600-h\/0626072033b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RoQLh3JfoXI\/AAAAAAAAAMw\/E8Fz-SMTrIw\/s200\/0626072033b.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Chicago &#8211; SO my kind of town.  (Well, NYC my kind of town too, but, well, you know&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still high from Tuesday&#8217;s reading at The Book Stall &#8211; the place I went to pick out books when I was twelve.  Not only did I have my two grandmas in the house and my high school English teacher to whom the book is partly dedicated, but a 9-mo.-pregnant-and-about-to-pop dear friend from high school (pictured left) and my soulmate from graduate school, Eileen (pictured right), were there too. Also attending: my parents&#8217; beloved shrink friends, two great-aunts, Aunt Shellie and Uncle Jim, and, yes, even some folks I didn&#8217;t know.  It was so comfy, I felt like I was reading in my parents&#8217; living room.  Thank you to all for such a warm homecoming &#8212; and for such lively post-reading conversation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago &#8211; SO my kind of town. (Well, NYC my kind of town too, but, well, you know&#8230;) I&#8217;m still high from Tuesday&#8217;s reading at The Book Stall &#8211; the place I went to pick out books when I was twelve. Not only did I have my two grandmas in the house and my high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}