{"id":2634,"date":"2017-11-28T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:03:46","slug":"texas-far-and-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2634","title":{"rendered":"Texas Far and Wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Book Signing: Saturday, December 9th, 2017, 2:00-4:00 p.m.<\/h5>\n<p><strong>E. R. Bills<\/strong> joins us again with a collection of Texas tall tales.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/texas-far-and-wide-cover-340w.jpg\" alt=\"texas-far-and-wide-cover-340w\" width=\"340\" height=\"520\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2635\" srcset=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/texas-far-and-wide-cover-340w.jpg 340w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/texas-far-and-wide-cover-340w-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/>The sheer volume of remarkable Texan exploits creates a dizzying tally for the proudest of its citizens. So it happens that inexplicable marvels slip past an entire state of storytellers and world-famous legends live as anonymous neighbors. Ever hear the story about the escaped ape in the Big Thicket? Or the &#8220;Interplanetary Capital of the Universe&#8221; that sat on the Gulf Coast? Does the cowboy hat that warmed U.S.-China relations ring a bell? From the Staked Plain Quakers to the Kaiser Burnout, this volume delves into some of the most fascinating chapters of overlooked Texas lore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>E. R. Bills<\/strong> received a BA in Journalism from Texas State University and does freelance writing for publications around the state. He is an author, screenwriter and free-lance journalist from Aledo, TX. He is the author of Texas Obscurities: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional and Nefarious, and The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas.<br style=\"clear:left\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Signing: Saturday, December 9th, 2017, 2:00-4:00 p.m. E. R. Bills joins us again with a collection of Texas tall tales. The sheer volume of remarkable Texan exploits creates a dizzying tally for the proudest of its citizens. So it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2634\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Far and Wide<\/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\/2634"}],"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=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}