{"id":291,"date":"2013-12-17T21:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T03:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/?p=291"},"modified":"2013-12-17T21:06:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T03:06:30","slug":"mcnally-sos-launch-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"McNally SOS Launch A Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Speaking2-72dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-292\" alt=\"Speaking2-72dpi\" src=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Speaking2-72dpi.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Speaking2-72dpi.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Speaking2-72dpi-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Every night at <a title=\"McNally\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcnallyrobinson.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">McNally Robinson Booksellers<\/a> is a good night. This one was doubly good for me, as I launched Sketches of Saskatoon with a Reading and Signing event on December 2<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>About 30 fine folks turned out for the celebration. They were very excited to see the book for themselves; and many of them took away multiple copies as gifts for friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>I had a great time filling people in on the inspiration for the book, sharing how the images were created, describing what it took to put the pages together, and much much more.<\/p>\n<p>The fine folks over at Grower Direct Florists (Kim, Quinn and the team) sent along a surprise bouquet of flowers to brighten up the night.<\/p>\n<p>And, Marcy, the Special Events coordinator at McNally did her usual excellent job of set up and hosting.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few more pics from the evening for you to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SOS-McNally-Launch-72dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-295\" alt=\"SOS McNally Launch-72dpi\" src=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SOS-McNally-Launch-72dpi.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SOS-McNally-Launch-72dpi.jpg 612w, http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SOS-McNally-Launch-72dpi-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every night at McNally Robinson Booksellers is a good night. This one was doubly good for me, as I launched Sketches of Saskatoon with a Reading and Signing event on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,12,24,11,5,6,9,4,25,7],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-art","tag-book","tag-launch","tag-mcnally-robinson","tag-pat-katz","tag-pauseworks-studio","tag-saskatoon","tag-sketches-of-saskatoon","tag-special-event","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/sketcheswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}