{"id":1448,"date":"2016-10-02T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2016-11-19T22:35:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T05:35:45","slug":"successful-book-launch-for-marianos-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"Successful Book Launch for Mariano&#8217;s Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_alexander_web_1500x573-300x115.png\" alt=\"mt_alexander_web_1500x573\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_alexander_web_1500x573-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_alexander_web_1500x573-768x293.png 768w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_alexander_web_1500x573-1024x391.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_alexander_web_1500x573.png 1500w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_alexander_web_1500x573-705x269.png 705w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_alexander_web_1500x573-845x321.png 845w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_alexander_web_1500x573-450x172.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>October first, 2016, was one of those magically beautiful Colorado autumn days that blessed the thirty participants in our sold-out historic sites tour for the launch of my new historical novel, Mariano&#8217;s Choice. \u00a0On our first stop, we visited the ruins of the old Weldon school in Sylvan Dale Ranch&#8217;s Big Valley. \u00a0Then our vehicle caravan\u00a0ascended the old quarry road on Red Ridge, the fictional site of Lena Medina&#8217;s secret grave, to peer over the edge of the towering cliff where a golden eagle soared\u00a0over the valley below. \u00a0Next we drove to Namaqua Park, site of Mariano&#8217;s original trading post and stagecoach stop, then on to\u00a0the restored Medina cemetery, where tour members got a chance to heft a replica of Medina&#8217;s Hawken rifle and learn more about Mariano Medina from Loveland Historical Society members Bill Meirath and Sharon Danhauer. \u00a0After returning to Sylvan Dale for Lunch, I presented my slide show introduction of Mariano&#8217;s Choice and read an excerpt from the new book.<\/p>\n<p>I also described\u00a0the theme of the book&#8211;overcoming cowardice&#8211;by sharing a quote from NY Times columnist David Brooks, as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The people we admire for being resilient are not hard; they are ardent. They have a fervent commitment to some cause, some ideal or some relationship. That higher yearning enables them to withstand setbacks, pain and betrayal. \u00a0\u2026grit, resilience and toughness are not traits that people possess intrinsically. They are means inspired by an end. \u00a0\u2026As Nietzsche put it, \u201cHe who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.\u201d \u00a0David Brooks, NY Times, Aug. 30, 2016<\/p>\n<p>For me, that quote sums up the fictional journey traveled by\u00a0my main character, Mariano Medina, one of the West&#8217;s legendary mountain men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October first, 2016, was one of those magically beautiful Colorado autumn days that blessed the thirty participants in our sold-out historic sites tour for the launch of my new historical novel, Mariano&#8217;s Choice. \u00a0On our first stop, we visited the ruins of the old Weldon school in Sylvan Dale Ranch&#8217;s Big Valley. \u00a0Then our vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[76,77,75,71,72,74,73],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","tag-american-west","tag-historical-novel","tag-loveland-historical-society","tag-mariano-medina","tag-marianos-choice","tag-medina-cemetery","tag-mountain-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}