{"id":3048,"date":"2020-07-12T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T09:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2020-07-12T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T09:45:10","slug":"paris-gets-new-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=3048","title":{"rendered":"Paris Gets a New Bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Paris lost a bookstore, The Blind Pig, last month. This month they\u2019ve gained a new indie. <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allthings138.com\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">All Things Coffee &amp; Books<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> is open at 138 Lamar Avenue.&nbsp; For now, they offer curbside service and online shopping.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">The new store is a labor of love between friends, Denise Williams and Shauna Mercaldo, who met at Immanuel Baptist church through the children&#8217;s ministry. The friends <span style=\"color:#444444\">started the business to fund a non-profit organization \u201cwhile celebrating all of their favorite things: coffee, T-shirts, books and ministry.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Their Facebook page specifies:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#1c1e21\">\u201cWe love Jesus, family, coffee, books and Paris, TX. All Things Coffee and Books provides a Christ focused, family centered environment for community fellowship, family gatherings, or quaint spot to share coffee with a friend.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">One of the neat ideas at All Things is the \u201cPour It Forward\u201d wall. Anyone can go into the store and prepay a treat for anyone. The notice goes on the wall, and the store puts out the word on social media for the lucky recipients. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Business hours are 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, and 9 to 9 on Saturday; the store is closed on Sunday and Monday. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris gets a new indie bookstore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,8,22,247],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lonestarliterarylife","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-newsbrief","tag-texasbookstore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}