{"id":2364,"date":"2016-06-22T13:19:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T18:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2020-04-13T05:55:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:55:57","slug":"the-last-madam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2364","title":{"rendered":"The Last Madam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Saturday, July 9th, 2016, 2:00-4:00 p.m.<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Joy Jones<\/strong> will be with us Saturday with her historical novel of the life of Edna Milton, owner of the infamous Chicken Ranch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleurfinebooks.com\/product\/39238\/The-Last-Madam-Joy-Jones\" style=\"color:red;\" ><span style=\"background-color:#bfe7ff;padding:5px 10px 5px 10px;border:1px solid #666\"><strong>Purchase<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/last-madam-cover-340w.jpg\" alt=\"last-madam-cover-340w\" width=\"340\" height=\"530\" class=\"alignleft bordered size-full wp-image-2361\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/last-madam-cover-340w.jpg 340w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/last-madam-cover-340w-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><strong>The Last Madam:<br \/>A Legend of the<br \/>Texas Chicken Ranch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edna Milton never planned to become a madam, but life dealt her some devilishly rough blows beginning at an early age. With very little education to sustain her, she elected to survive the only way she knew how: exchanging pleasure for hard cash, and in tough economic times, for chickens. Instead of merely surviving, Miss Edna chose to thrive, and her skills at organization and customer service \u2013 plus setting strict rules for behavior \u2013 built a fortune to match her legendary reputation. When the tide turned against her again, the Last Madam of the Texas Chicken Ranch reinvented herself one more time.<br style=\"clear:left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joy Jones<\/strong> did an interview about the book with <strong>Houston Matters<\/strong>. The Podcast can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonmatters.org\/segments\/segment-e\/2016\/06\/01\/novel-explores-the-life-of-the-last-madam-at-the-infamous-chicken-ranch-brothel\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 9th, 2016, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Joy Jones will be with us Saturday with her historical novel of the life of Edna Milton, owner of the infamous Chicken Ranch. Purchase The Last Madam:A Legend of theTexas Chicken Ranch Edna Milton &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2364\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Last Madam<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}