{"id":2441,"date":"2012-07-31T14:53:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2012-07-31T14:53:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:53:46","slug":"the-big-texas-expo-was-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/07\/31\/the-big-texas-expo-was-great\/","title":{"rendered":"The big Texas Expo was great!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got to meet tons of fans of the magazine, visited with so many people that knew me and I finally got to meet and made many new friends after speaking two days on self-reliant living and, of course, canning! I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever hugged so many people in one weekend in my lifetime!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Texas-Expo-2012.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2442\" title=\"Texas-Expo-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Texas-Expo-2012.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In-between times, I helped out at the BHM booth, sold a lot of my books, and signed plenty of autographs, too. It was a fast-paced, fun weekend. I did have a couple hairy moments, barely making my flight connection in Minneapolis with FIVE minutes to spare. And that was by running on the moving sidewalk for about 1\/4 mile. Really! I&#8217;ll bet I was a funny sight! But I got my butt down in a plane seat for home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Canning-presentation.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2443\" title=\"Canning-presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Canning-presentation.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m back to business. Our green beans knew I was gone and went wild. So today I have to can beans like mad. But how pretty they all are! Sigh. I&#8217;m back home with my wonderful husband and homestead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to meet tons of fans of the magazine, visited with so many people that knew me and I finally got to meet and made many new friends after speaking two days on self-reliant living and, of course, canning! I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever hugged so many people in one weekend in my lifetime! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}