{"id":729,"date":"2012-12-01T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T17:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=729"},"modified":"2012-12-01T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T17:22:12","slug":"book-signing-jan-johnsons-beyond-the-beaten-paths-december-8-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Book Signing: Jan Johnson&#8217;s Beyond the Beaten Paths, December 8, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?attachment_id=728\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-728\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-728\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Beyond the Beaten Paths: Driving Historic Galveston\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wpbeta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/beyond-the-beaten250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jan Johnson&#8217;s second guidebook to historic Galveston Island is now complete!\u00a0 Please join\u00a0us for a Book Launch on Saturday, December 8, at the Bienville Social from\u00a02 &#8211; 5 pm, where Jan will give a presentation and sign copies of the book.<\/p>\n<p>With an ambitious goal of including all that was left out of the her first guide, the driving guide begins where the first\u00a0left off, covering Harborside Drive from 33rd to 14th Streets.\u00a0From there, wandering readers will travel the Island&#8217;s streets from the port to the gulf, meandering in and out of the mostly Victorian East End.\u00a0In addition to\u00a0walking\u00a0some\u00a0parts\u00a0of several concentrated areas, readers will park and walk the downtown &#8220;Arts and Entertainment&#8221; Postoffice District and the Broadway Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>The driving guide will then\u00a0travel\u00a0west to the airport through several mid-town middle-class neighborhoods, before leading\u00a0&#8220;excursionists&#8221; &#8220;Down the Island&#8221; to Jamaica Beach.\u00a0 They\u00a0will then return to the city proper\u00a0via the Seawall and a circuitous route through the Lasker\u00a0and Kempner Park neighborhoods before completing their journey into the past by driving to the very eastern tip of the Seawall and even onto the sand, if they choose.<\/p>\n<p>Bienville Social is at 323 23rd street, right next door to the book shop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?attachment_id=735\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-735\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-735\" title=\"Jan Johnson, December 8th, 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wpbeta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1264-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"343\" style=\"margin-right:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: Jan Johnson signs her new book at the Book Launch.<br \/>\n<br style=\"clear:both\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Johnson&#8217;s second guidebook to historic Galveston Island is now complete!\u00a0 Please join\u00a0us for a Book Launch on Saturday, December 8, at the Bienville Social from\u00a02 &#8211; 5 pm, where Jan will give a presentation and sign copies of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=729\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Signing: Jan Johnson&#8217;s Beyond the Beaten Paths, December 8, 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":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}