{"id":1868,"date":"2013-11-29T07:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T13:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2014-11-17T07:17:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T13:17:41","slug":"a-cup-of-jo-by-sandra-balzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/29\/a-cup-of-jo-by-sandra-balzo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cup of Jo by Sandra Balzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest audiobook is book 6 in the Maggy Thorsen coffeehouse mystery series by Sandra Balzo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Mysteries-Thrillers\/A-Cup-of-Jo-Audiobook\/B00GCRO1AK\/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1385732039&#038;sr=1-1\">A Cup of Jo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maggy&#8217;s heart, uncharacteristically, is swelling with optimism. Sure, her original Wisconsin coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, was destroyed in a freak early May blizzard. But, thanks to friend and new business partner, Sarah Kingston, a perfect location for its successor has been found in a quaint Brookhills railroad station recently revitalized by the creation of a commuter-rail connection between the old depot and the city of Milwaukee, fifteen miles east.<\/p>\n<p>Maggy and Sarah hope to piggyback the grand reopening of Uncommon Grounds on the media coverage of Dedication Day for the train&#8217;s two terminal points. Maggy even digs deep into her development budget and commissions a giant inflatable Uncommon Grounds coffee cup for the celebrations. All seems perfectly poised for the great day, until Brookhills&#8217; in absentia event manager, JoLynne Penn-Williams, finally makes her appearance &#8211; as a corpse in Maggy&#8217;s piece de resistance\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a92010 Sandra Balzo (P)2013 Sandra Balzo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest audiobook is book 6 in the Maggy Thorsen coffeehouse mystery series by Sandra Balzo, A Cup of Jo. Maggy&#8217;s heart, uncharacteristically, is swelling with optimism. Sure, her original Wisconsin coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, was destroyed in a freak early May blizzard. But, thanks to friend and new business partner, Sarah Kingston, a perfect location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[31,62,51,61,313,303],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","tag-acx","tag-audible","tag-audio","tag-audiobook","tag-audiobooks","tag-sandra-balzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}