{"id":25265,"date":"2017-07-21T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=25265"},"modified":"2017-07-19T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T21:14:32","slug":"lunch-with-bestselling-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2017\/07\/21\/lunch-with-bestselling-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with bestselling author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Robin Esrock speaks at the Jewish Family Service Agency\u2019s Seniors Lunch program. <em>(photo from JFSA)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well-known travel writer Robin Esrock gave an inspirational talk to the Jewish Family Service Agency\u2019s Seniors Lunch program, which took place at Congregation Beth Israel on July 11.<\/p>\n<p>Esrock has written for several publications, has been a TV host and his book <em>The Great Canadian Bucket List<\/em> was on the bestseller list in Canada and Australia. He told the approximately 40 guests the story of how his adventure-focused career began and how he has been very fortunate in the unorthodox path he has chosen. He also shared his philosophy, which is \u201cyou are just where you are supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JFSA\u2019s Seniors Lunch program comprises a kosher meal once a month at Beth Israel and twice a month at Temple Sholom on Tuesdays at noon. All Jewish seniors are welcome. For more information and reservations, call Queenie Hamovich at 604-558-5709.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Esrock speaks at the Jewish Family Service Agency\u2019s Seniors Lunch program. (photo from JFSA) Well-known travel writer Robin Esrock gave an inspirational talk to the Jewish Family Service Agency\u2019s Seniors Lunch program, which took place at Congregation Beth Israel on July 11. Esrock has written for several publications, has been a TV host and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3157,1026,1184,7284,3714,2084],"class_list":["post-25265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-canada","tag-jewish-family-service-agency","tag-jfsa","tag-robin-esrock","tag-seniors","tag-travel-2"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}