{"id":498,"date":"2016-11-04T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?p=498"},"modified":"2017-11-01T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:58:53","slug":"veterans-day-a-public-reading-and-some-random-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day, a public reading, and some random musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First. The Veterans Day charity pledge will continue until November 19. This year all proceeds will benefit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationhomefront.net\/\">Operation Homefront<\/a>; they provide short-term and critical assistance, long-term stability, and recurring support programs to military families. Seriously a great organization. Please support them by grabbing a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00VAQVNTK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00VAQVNTK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=micddur-20&amp;linkId=BPELGSUV4YOA77MM\">Once in a Blue Year on Amazon.com<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/durkota-vets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-499 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/durkota-vets-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"durkota-vets\" width=\"436\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/durkota-vets-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/durkota-vets-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/durkota-vets-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/durkota-vets-676x338.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second. I am honored to participate in a public reading celebrating Veterans Day. The event is hosted by Ashley Kunsa of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/2016\/08\/coffee-and-karma\/\">VetsWrite<\/a> and is taking place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/567026136841908\/\">Norwin Public Library on Saturday, November 12<\/a>. I will be joined by fellow writer and veteran <span class=\"_4n-j fsl\">Ryne Tobar<\/span>. If you are in the greater Pittsburgh area, please stop in. There will be a Q&amp;A, refreshments, and I will be signing copies of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00VAQVNTK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00VAQVNTK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=micddur-20&amp;linkId=BPELGSUV4YOA77MM\">Once in a Blue Year<\/a> with all proceeds of course supporting Operation Homefront.<\/p>\n<p>Third. Some random musings from this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I started reading the second book in Erica Crockett&#8217;s Blood Zodiac series. It is haunting and beautiful. She is a gifted writer. I highly recommend that you check out her first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/2015\/11\/book-review-chemicals-by-erica-crockett\/\">Chemicals<\/a>. After that, you should get started with book one of the Blood Zodiac, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/2016\/03\/book-review-the-ram-by-erica-crockett\/\">The Ram<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I discovered that a random tweet of mine from last year was referenced in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com.au\/emoji-sheds-tears-joy-it-named-oxford-dictionaries-2015-word-year-watch-videos-1484146\">article by The International Business Times<\/a>. I was venting about the Oxford word of year being an emoji.<\/li>\n<li>I am glad I stayed up to watch the last couple games of the World Series, but I think it will take me few days to catch up on all the lost sleep. I really didn&#8217;t care who won in the end, I just love the excitement of post-season baseball.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=durk13\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First. The Veterans Day charity pledge will continue until November 19. This year all proceeds will benefit Operation Homefront; they provide short-term and critical assistance, long-term stability, and recurring support programs to military families. Seriously a great organization. Please support them by grabbing a copy of Once in a Blue Year on Amazon.com. Second. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blueyear","category-musings","category-veterans","category-writery-things"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}