{"id":4403,"date":"2016-12-09T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2016-12-11T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T16:09:22","slug":"adrift-at-sea-brantford-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/adrift-at-sea-brantford-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrift at Sea Brantford book launch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surprise snow storm didn&#8217;t keep people away from coming to the Station Cafe on Dec 6th. 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href='https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/adrift-at-sea-brantford-book-launch\/marg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"951\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/marg.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/marg.jpg 951w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/marg-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/marg-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/adrift-at-sea-brantford-book-launch\/tuan\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"951\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tuan.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tuan.jpg 951w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tuan-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tuan-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/adrift-at-sea-brantford-book-launch\/tuanfamily-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1016\" height=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tuanfamily-3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tuanfamily-3.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tuanfamily-3-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tuanfamily-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Tuan came with his entire family and we all autographed the books that were sold that night. Proceeds of the event were donated to the Brant Anglican Churches Support for Syrian Refugees. Sweets were provided by the Brant Anglican Churches refugee committee. The Family Literacy Committee of Brant, Kids Can Fly and the St. George Girl Guides hosted the event. Many thanks to Mike Tutt and the Station Cafe for the great venue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4407 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/marshasharon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/marshasharon.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/marshasharon-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/marshasharon-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here I am with the amazing Sharon Brooks of Kids Can Fly. Sharon was the master organizer of the launch. Sharon is dedicated to improving the lives of the kids of Brant (she has my vote for being a woman selected for Canadian currency!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprise snow storm didn&#8217;t keep people away from coming to the Station Cafe on Dec 6th. We had a packed house! Tuan came with his entire family and we all autographed the books that were sold that night. Proceeds of the event were donated to the Brant Anglican Churches Support for Syrian Refugees. Sweets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/adrift-at-sea-brantford-book-launch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adrift at Sea Brantford book launch!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,262,1],"tags":[360,362,383,363],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-news-stories","category-uncategorized","tag-adrift-at-sea","tag-book-launch","tag-sharon-brooks","tag-tuan-ho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}