{"id":2515,"date":"2017-04-03T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T21:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2017-05-08T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T19:40:31","slug":"points-of-light-the-art-of-being-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2515","title":{"rendered":"Points of Light: The Art of Being Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Book Signing: Saturday, May 13th, 2017, 2:00-4:00 p.m.<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Points of Light: The Art of Being Human<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harold C. Raley<\/strong> joins us with his new collection of essays<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/points-of-light-cover-340w.jpg\" alt=\"unaware-cover-340w\" width=\"340\" height=\"511\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2490\" \/>Harold Raley tackles a diverse range of philosophical topics in his latest collection of essays &#8220;Points of Light.&#8221; Raley&#8217;s trademark wit and brevity have earned him a loyal following as a columnist for the Galveston County Daily News. This collection of many of his newspaper articles offers up musings on everything from literary criticism, to early medicine on the Texas Frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Novelist and short story writer, linguist, philosopher, and professor, <strong>Harold C. Raley<\/strong> holds degrees (BA, MA, PhD) in English, Foreign Languages, Humanities, and Philosophy. Named Distinguished Professor, he has taught languages, literature, and philosophy in American and foreign universities. His publications include fourteen books of fiction, history, language, and philosophy, and approximately 150 articles and essays on wide-ranging topics in professional journals and newspapers.<br \/>\n<br style=\"clear:left\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Signing: Saturday, May 13th, 2017, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Points of Light: The Art of Being Human Harold C. Raley joins us with his new collection of essays Harold Raley tackles a diverse range of philosophical topics in his latest collection &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2515\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Points of Light: The Art of Being Human<\/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\/2515"}],"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=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}