{"id":212,"date":"2013-02-02T20:39:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T20:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2013-08-06T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T17:41:32","slug":"book-launch-january-18-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch! January 18, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pinch me! I still can’t believe that was real. Ede and Dan from Joh Bale Book Company were gracious enough to host the party for the release of my novel, THE NAMESAKE<\/strong><\/em>. Though it was a chilly January night, it was a truly fantastic evening. I was awed and honored by the turnout, which included family, friends and folks from just about every stage of my life. Here are some photos. Thanks to my wife Janet for some of them, and my friends Terry Laslo and Andrea Petrario for others!<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a> Parlato Family<\/p>\n

\"Namesake<\/a> Namesake Cake!<\/p>\n

\"book<\/a> Jillian Assists<\/p>\n

\"775003_4759550060952_89677460_o[1]\"<\/a> Writer Friends<\/p>\n

\"Signing\"<\/a> Signing for Shel<\/p>\n

\"SteveReads\"<\/a> Steven Reads<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Easy Writers & Friends<\/p>\n

\"184616_10151433906457433_1927040434_n[1]\"<\/a> Dear Edwina<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to the John Bale site: http:\/\/www.johnbalebooks.com\/<\/a> Check them out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pinch me! I still can’t believe that was real. Ede and Dan from Joh Bale Book Company were gracious enough to host the party for the release of my novel, THE NAMESAKE. Though it was a chilly January night, it was a truly fantastic evening. I was awed and honored by the turnout, which included […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevenparlato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}