{"id":2667,"date":"2019-12-26T19:41:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T02:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2019-12-26T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T02:46:22","slug":"my-first-book-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2667","title":{"rendered":"My First Book Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2328\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Had my first reading last week. It took place in a small room in a small bookstore with a small crowd (can you call 10 a crowd?).<\/p>\n<p>I loved it. I used to tell students that you never know what you have written until a reader tells you. So authors live for reviews and comments.<\/p>\n<p>But nothing matches reading out loud and hearing immediate response (laughter) or seeing it (a smile or nod).<\/p>\n<p>So my friends who came out were either humoring me or genuinely engaged. Either way, I loved it.<\/p>\n<p>And if you wanted to come, but couldn\u2019t. No worries. It\u2019s now on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zNeZ6d8VmSI&amp;t=826s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>. Hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had my first reading last week. It took place in a small room in a small bookstore with a small crowd (can you call 10 a crowd?). I loved it. I used to tell students that you never know what you have written until a reader tells you. So authors live for reviews and comments. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}