{"id":586,"date":"2014-07-28T21:34:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T01:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2014-07-28T21:34:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T01:34:31","slug":"thurber-house-author-tony-mendozas-favorite-part-of-america-might-be-yours-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Thurber House author Tony Mendoza&#8217;s favorite part of America might be yours as well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-588 alignnone\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\" alt=\"Mendoza and Kayla interview still\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Mendoza-300x179.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Mendoza-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Mendoza-1024x611.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>August 6 <a href=\"http:\/\/thurberhouse.org\/\">Thurber House<\/a> guest Tony Mendoza has been an educator, an engineer, an architect, and an almost obsessive photographer of cats. His first book,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ernie-Photographers-Memoir-Tony-Mendoza\/dp\/0811829634\/\"> Ernie<\/a>, chronicled several months in the life of his roommate&#8217;s cat. His latest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cuban-Summer-Tony-Mendoza\/dp\/1592661025\/\">A Cuban Summer<\/a>, focuses on his time as a teenager in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Craft_2014-7-30_Medndoza.mp3\">Mendoza talked to <em>Craft<\/em> summer intern Kayla<\/a>\u00a0about his time in Cuba, his move to America, and why dating was better in America than Cuba (hint: one country relied on chaperones).<a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Craft_2014-7-30_Medndoza.mp3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-587\" style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\" alt=\"Mendoza Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-28-at-8.46.06-AM-192x300.png\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-28-at-8.46.06-AM-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-28-at-8.46.06-AM.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2620\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-586-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Craft_2014-7-30_Medndoza.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Craft_2014-7-30_Medndoza.mp3\">http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Craft_2014-7-30_Medndoza.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Craft_2014-7-30_Medndoza.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=586-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Craft_2014-7-30_Medndoza.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_2014-7-30_Medndoza.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 6 Thurber House guest Tony Mendoza has been an educator, an engineer, an architect, and an almost obsessive photographer of cats. His first book, Ernie, chronicled several months in the life of his roommate&#8217;s cat. His latest, A Cuban &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=586\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,74],"tags":[86,84,83,85,82],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-to-attend","category-original-craft-productions","category-thurber-house-author","tag-a-cuban-summer","tag-america","tag-cuba","tag-ernie","tag-tony-mendoza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}