{"id":374,"date":"2009-01-05T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T19:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T19:47:40","slug":"reading-in-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/reading-in-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading in LA"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll be reading from Timely Persuasion<\/em> on Sunday, January 11 at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood as part of Tongue & Groove<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 T&G is a monthly series featuring authors and musicians that I’ve been attending for a few years now, so it will be interesting to experience it from the stage rather than the crowd.<\/p>\n

\"Tongue
Tongue & Groove at the Hotel Cafe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you’re in the area, stop by and say hello!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll be reading from Timely Persuasion on Sunday, January 11 at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood as part of Tongue & Groove.\u00c2\u00a0 T&G is a monthly series featuring authors and musicians that I’ve been attending for a few years now, so it will be interesting to experience it from the stage rather than the crowd….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-62","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":496,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/one-year-later\/","url_meta":{"origin":374,"position":0},"title":"One Year Later","author":"LBDG","date":"March 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the release of Timely Persuasion.\u00c2\u00a0 (Technically it was released on February 29th, so this pseudo anniversary date will have to do until 2012.)\u00c2\u00a0 Crazy how time flies. 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