{"id":1886,"date":"2017-12-19T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2017-11-16T13:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:23:31","slug":"best-holiday-book-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2017\/12\/19\/best-holiday-book-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Holiday Book Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"During the holiday season, which books draw you in for a second, third, or maybe a yearly read?<\/p>\n

I want to share one that remains on my heart since high school.<\/p>\n

My author friend, Lauraine Selling, wrote The Lonely Donkey<\/em>, a lovely children’s story when we were in high school. It follows the journey of the donkey that carries Mary toward Bethlehem.<\/p>\n

Lauraine made colored pencil drawings and created a wood-burned cover with leather hinges.<\/p>\n

As it turned out she only made two copies, both of which she gave away.\u00a0 Several years ago when I was getting out my holidays decorations, I made a decision to give my copy back to Lauraine. I found a piece of velvet to wrap it in and mailed it away. I hated to give it up but I reasoned she needed a copy to commemorate her early writing.<\/p>\n

I received the most grateful note from Lauraine about the book. She’d forgotten about it, but was excited to have a copy. That made it my best holiday book ever.<\/p>\n

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What holiday books do you value? Do any have a special significance in your life?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the holiday season, which books draw you in for a second, third, or maybe a yearly read? I want to share one that remains on my heart since high school. My author friend, Lauraine Selling, wrote The Lonely Donkey, a lovely children’s story when we were in high school. It follows the journey of the donkey that carries Mary toward Bethlehem. Lauraine made colored pencil drawings and created a wood-burned cover with leather hinges. As it turned out she only made two copies, both of which she gave away.\u00a0 Several years ago when I was getting out my holidays...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-special-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}