{"id":2851,"date":"2019-04-04T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T19:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2019-04-04T14:12:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T19:12:33","slug":"texas-singularities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"Texas Singularities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Saturday, April 27th, 2019, 1:00-3:00 pm<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Texas Singularities<\/strong><br \/>\nby <strong>Clay Coppedge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Galveston Bookshop will host a book signing on Saturday, April 27th, 1:00-3:00 p.m. for author <strong>Clay Coppedge<\/strong> with his book, &#8220;Texas Singularities,&#8221; a collection of select stories from Texas history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/texas-singularities-cover-340w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/texas-singularities-cover-340w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"510\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2852\" srcset=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/texas-singularities-cover-340w.jpg 340w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/texas-singularities-cover-340w-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Texas, that most singular of states, conceals an entire parade of peculiar events and exceptional people in the back pages of its history books.<\/p>\n<p>A Lone Star man once (and only once) tried to bulldog a steer from an airplane. One small Texas town was attacked by the Japanese, while another was &#8220;liberated&#8221; from America during the Cold War. Texan career choices include goat gland doctor, rubbing doctor, striking cowboy and singing cowboy, not to mention swatter, tangler and dunker.<\/p>\n<p>From gunslinger Sally Skull to would-be rainmaker R.G. Dyrenforth, Clay Coppedge collects the distinctive odds and ends of Texan lore.<br style=\"clear:left\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 27th, 2019, 1:00-3:00 pm Texas Singularities by Clay Coppedge Galveston Bookshop will host a book signing on Saturday, April 27th, 1:00-3:00 p.m. for author Clay Coppedge with his book, &#8220;Texas Singularities,&#8221; a collection of select stories from Texas &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2851\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Singularities<\/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\/2851"}],"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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}