{"id":25193,"date":"2016-04-19T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=25193"},"modified":"2016-04-17T18:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T01:34:57","slug":"lisa-congdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/19\/lisa-congdon\/","title":{"rendered":"lisa congdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lisacongdon_swim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lisacongdon_swim.jpg\" alt=\"lisacongdon_swim\" width=\"584\" height=\"4138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ready to dive in? Me too!\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/thejoyofswimmingbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Joy of Swimming&#8221;<\/a><\/em>, by Portland based artist\/illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/lisacongdon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Congdon<\/a>, hits shelves <strong>today!<\/strong> Gorgeous illustrations, beautiful hand-lettered quotes, and really interesting\u00a0facts\/stories about all things swimming. Lisa brings passion to everything she does, but this project is near and dear to her heart, because she&#8217;s been a swimmer since she was little &#8230; see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lisacongdon_swimBIO.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lisacongdon_swimBIO.jpg\" alt=\"lisacongdon_swimBIO\" width=\"584\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lisacongdon_swimBIO.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lisacongdon_swimBIO-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Aw,<\/em> so cute! Congratulations Lisa&#8230; I&#8217;m so thrilled that you\u00a0had a chance to totally jump into this\u00a0project\u00a0<em>{see what I did there?}<\/em>. \u00a0If you love swimming &#8211;\u00a0or water, or beautiful artwork, or Lisa\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thejoyofswimmingbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">pick up this lovely book<\/a>. Oh, and Lisa is going on the road with this one so if you want to meet her\/have your book signed, you can find her right here:<\/p>\n<p><b>April 26, 7-9 pm\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cca.edu\/calendar\/2016\/lisa-congdon-lecture-booksigning\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s3\">California College of the Arts\u00a0(San Francisco)<\/span><\/a><b><br \/>\nMay 8, 2-4 pm\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strandbooks.com\/event\/lisa-congdon\" target=\"_blank\">Strand Books<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strandbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0(NYC)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s2\"><b>May 11, 7-9 pm<\/b> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerhousearena.com\/events\/book-launch-the-joy-of-swimming-by-lisa-congdon-and-lynne-cox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s3\">Powerhouse Arena (Brooklyn, NY)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>May 13, 9-10:30 am\u00a0<\/b> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativemornings.com\/cities\/msp\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s3\">Creative Mornings (Minneapolis)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s3\"><b>May\u00a017, 7-9 pm\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u2013\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwaybooks.net\/event\/lisa-congdon-joy-swimming\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway Books (Portland)<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>May 24 7-9 pm<\/b> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.bookstore.washington.edu\/_events\/events_cal.taf?evmonth=05&amp;evyear=2016&amp;eventid=2015120809494900\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">University Bookstore (Seattle)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready to dive in? Me too!\u00a0&#8220;The Joy of Swimming&#8221;, by Portland based artist\/illustrator Lisa Congdon, hits shelves today! Gorgeous illustrations, beautiful hand-lettered quotes, and really interesting\u00a0facts\/stories about all things swimming. Lisa brings passion to everything she does, but this project is near and dear to her heart, because she&#8217;s been a swimmer since she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269,3,112,6,7,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25228,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25193\/revisions\/25228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}