{"id":192,"date":"2013-10-19T09:42:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T14:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2014-01-30T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T15:56:40","slug":"192","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/192\/","title":{"rendered":"Book tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scan0005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-193\" alt=\"scan0005\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scan0005-300x234.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fun book tour to San Antonio and Houston and Katy (which is a suburb of Houston, although Houston&#8217;s suburbs have now spread beyond imagination). My escort, the charming and helpful Mary Ann Knoweth said &#8216;I tell people that this out here was once all farmland and they look at me as if I were crazy or I were 200 years old&#8217;.\u00a0 The cities spread and spread and spread.<\/p>\n<p>It was farmland &#8212; ricelands, grazing lands. Now all subdivisions and big-box stores, corporate headquarters for BP and Exxon etc. etc. Far away on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, there are one or two lighthouses.<\/p>\n<p>The also kind and also helpful publicity guy at Harper-Collins, Ben Bruton, booked me into places that would take pets so Rita got to come with me. She was in pet heaven.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fun book tour to San Antonio and Houston and Katy (which is a suburb of Houston, although Houston&#8217;s suburbs have now spread beyond imagination). My escort, the charming and helpful Mary Ann Knoweth said &#8216;I tell people that this out here was once all farmland and they look at me as if I were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}