{"id":2571,"date":"2017-09-23T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T22:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2017-09-23T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T22:34:35","slug":"author-anne-hillerman-visits-sylvan-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=2571","title":{"rendered":"Author Anne Hillerman Visits Sylvan Dale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman spent two days at Sylvan Dale Ranch during her September 18-19 visit to Colorado as the \u201cLoveland Loves to Read\u201d author of the year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2572\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2572\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Anne-Hillerman-at-Sylvan-Dale-cropped--300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Anne-Hillerman-at-Sylvan-Dale-cropped--300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Anne-Hillerman-at-Sylvan-Dale-cropped-.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Peg Isakson, Loveland Loves to Read, David Jessup, Anne Hillerman, Diane Lapierre, Loveland Library Director<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hillerman spoke to a sold-out crowd at the Rialto Theater on Monday night, and to another sold-out lunch at the Ranch on Tuesday.\u00a0 She is the daughter of Tony Hillerman, author of 18 mysteries set on the Navaho reservation in New Mexico.\u00a0 Her first novel, Spider Woman\u2019s Daughter, includes characters Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn that her father created, while moving a female Navaho police officer, Bernadette Manuelito, onto center stage.\u00a0 The book was enthusiastically received by the Loveland Community.\u00a0 It received the prestigious Spur Award from Western Writers of America in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Anne\u2019s parting comment when leaving Sylvan Dale:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><strong><em>\u201cYou guys are such a generous, professional, thoughtful bunch. I didn&#8217;t know what to expect at the ranch, and even if I had, you would have exceeded my preconceptions tenfold.\u00a0 It was especially nice to be in a place where we could relax and be taken care of.\u00a0 I have recommended your outfit highly to my brother and sister-in-law and will continue to sing your praises far and wide.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman spent two days at Sylvan Dale Ranch during her September 18-19 visit to Colorado as the \u201cLoveland Loves to Read\u201d author of the year. Hillerman spoke to a sold-out crowd at the Rialto Theater on Monday night, and to another sold-out lunch at the Ranch on Tuesday.\u00a0 She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9,7,21],"tags":[100,138,139,83,140,137,136],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-american-west","category-events","category-media","category-news","tag-anne-hillerman","tag-jim-chee","tag-joe-leaphorn","tag-loveland-loves-to-read","tag-navaho-mystery","tag-spider-womans-daughter","tag-tony-hillerman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","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=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}