{"id":507,"date":"2016-11-13T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T19:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?p=507"},"modified":"2017-11-01T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:58:43","slug":"great-event-to-support-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Great Event to Support Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was honored to participate in a public reading yesterday with\u00a0Ryne Tobar, a fellow veteran and an excellent writer. The event was held at Norwin Public Library and was organized by Ashley Kunsa and Brad Coffield of VetsWrite<\/a>; the festivities included refreshments and a Q&A with the audience.\u00a0 We had a great turnout and participation. I signed a few books at the end and raised almost $100 for Operation Homefront<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Here’s a shot of me trying not to let the nerves show:<\/p>\n

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Here’s the Q&A with Ryne:<\/p>\n

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Here’s the team celebrating the success (Ryne, me, Ashley, and Brad):<\/p>\n

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And here’s me getting ready to sign some books and raise some money for Operation Homefront:<\/p>\n

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I was honored to participate in a public reading yesterday with\u00a0Ryne Tobar, a fellow veteran and an excellent writer. The event was held at Norwin Public Library and was organized by Ashley Kunsa and Brad Coffield of VetsWrite; the festivities included refreshments and a Q&A with the audience.\u00a0 We had a great turnout and participation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blueyear","category-veterans","category-writery-things"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}