{"id":715,"date":"2012-11-14T17:13:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T23:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2012-11-14T17:13:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T23:13:52","slug":"book-signing-the-galveston-houston-packet-november-17-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Book Signing: The Galveston-Houston Packet, November 17, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?attachment_id=714\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-714\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-714\" title=\"The Galveston-Houston Packet\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wpbeta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ghpacket-300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew W. Hall will be with us on Saturday to sign his new history book covering the role of the steamboat packet services running on Buffalo Bayou in the mid-1800s and their key contribution to the development of commerce in the port cities of Galveston and Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Event runs from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 17th at the store.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Galveston-Houston Packet: Steamboats on Buffalo Bayou<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nSoft cover, <strong>$19.99<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?attachment_id=720\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-720\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-720\" title=\"Andrew W. Hall\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wpbeta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/andy-hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"323\" style=\"margin-right:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew W. Hall with the detailed model of the steamboat Bayou City which he built. This boat was one of the &#8220;cottonclads&#8221; used by the Confederacy in the battle to wrestle Galveston from Union control in 1862. Andy signed copies of his book and spoke at length about the steamboat packet trade.<br style=\"clear:both\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew W. Hall will be with us on Saturday to sign his new history book covering the role of the steamboat packet services running on Buffalo Bayou in the mid-1800s and their key contribution to the development of commerce in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=715\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Signing: The Galveston-Houston Packet, November 17, 2012<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3,6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}