{"id":252,"date":"2012-12-10T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/christmas-holiday-extravaganza_10\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:28:16","slug":"christmas-holiday-extravaganza_10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/christmas-holiday-extravaganza_10\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Holiday Extravaganza Spotlight #10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Southern Fried Christmas by Marian Merritt<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelicanbookgroup.com\/ec\/southern-fried-christmas\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SouthernFriedChristmas_w11200_120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/ec\/images\/stories\/covers\/SouthernFriedChristmas_w11200_120.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px;\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a>Love: purer than Colorado snow, deeper than a Louisiana bayou. <\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\n Colorado Rockies have always been home to journalist Kelly Shepherd,<br \/>\nbut after the death of her father, and facing her first Christmas alone,<br \/>\n she accepts an assignment that leads her deep into Louisiana\u2019s Cajun<br \/>\ncountry.<\/p>\n<p>Since his wife\u2019s death, Denny Labouve has focused his<br \/>\nattention on his ten-year-old daughter and the family business, but<br \/>\nKelly sparks the dying embers of his heart even as a Christmas cold<br \/>\nfront moves through his beloved Cajun country.<\/p>\n<p>Will Denny and Kelly be able to trust God to bridge the span between the Colorado Rockies and the Louisiana bayou?<\/p>\n<p>\nUnfortunately, fame follows her to the tiny village\u2014along with her stalk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Fried Christmas by Marian Merritt Love: purer than Colorado snow, deeper than a Louisiana bayou. The Colorado Rockies have always been home to journalist Kelly Shepherd, but after the death of her father, and facing her first Christmas alone, she accepts an assignment that leads her deep into Louisiana\u2019s Cajun country. Since his wife\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[512,746],"tags":[776],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-books","category-holidays","tag-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}