{"id":9878,"date":"2011-03-23T15:53:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T23:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2011-03-23T16:54:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T00:54:52","slug":"villasenor-at-carlsbad-library-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9878","title":{"rendered":"Villase\u00f1or At Carlsbad Library March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Beyond-Rain-of-Gold-cover-2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Beyond-Rain-of-Gold-cover-2.jpg','popup','width=600,height=900,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Beyond-Rain-of-Gold-cover-2-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Beyond-Rain-Of-Gold-Cover-2\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a years since we&#8217;ve read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=sacklunch&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=038531177X\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Villase\u00f1or&#8217;s Rain of Gold<\/a><\/strong> yet we&#8217;re still haunted by the story of the skinned steer running up the mountainside. In fact, that&#8217;s one of the few things we remember about reading the book, though at the time we remember finding at least the first half of the book amazing reading.<\/p>\n<p>The reason we&#8217;re reminded is that Mr. Villase\u00f1or will be appearing at <strong>Carlsbad&#8217;s Dove Library<\/strong> at 7 PM on Thursday, March 31, 2011 to talk about his new book Beyond Rain of Gold. Here&#8217;s how the book is described on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorvillasenor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Villase\u00f1or&#8217;s website<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Villase\u00f1or\u2019s connection with the Spirit World continued to deepen, awakening him to the ongoing miracles inherent in everyday living. He discovered that his life had suddenly taken on a magical quality, with events occurring that transcended the boundaries of what is normally considered \u201creality.\u201d Beyond Rain of Gold encompasses the magical messages that Villase\u00f1or\u2019s indigenous ancestors told him are universal themes common to native peoples everywhere on this planet . . . and at one time we were all indigenous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reading begins at 7 PM in the <strong>Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=safari&amp;q=1775+Dove+Lane,+Carlsbad&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=1775+Dove+Ln,+Carlsbad,+San+Diego,+California+92011&amp;gl=us&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad<\/a><\/strong>. Books will be available for purchase at the library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a years since we&#8217;ve read Victor Villase\u00f1or&#8217;s Rain of Gold yet we&#8217;re still haunted by the story of the skinned steer running up the mountainside. In fact, that&#8217;s one of the few things we remember about reading the book, though at the time we remember finding at least the first half of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9880,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions\/9880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}