{"id":9992,"date":"2025-10-21T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/9992\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:11:09","slug":"pennsylvania-gov-josh-shapiros-memoir-is-coming-out-in-january-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/9992\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro&#8217;s memoir is coming out in January | Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Pennsylvania Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/josh-shapiro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Shapiro<\/a> has a book coming out in January, touching upon everything from his swift political rise to the trauma of his home being set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Tuesday that \u201cWhere We Keep the Light: Stories From a Life of Service,\u201d will be released Jan. 27. Shapiro, 52, has become a prominent national Democrat since he was elected governor in 2022. He was on <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/kamala-harris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kamala Harris&#8217;<\/a> shortlist as a running mate in last year&#8217;s presidential election and he has often been cited as a potential candidate for 2028.<\/p>\n<p>According to Harper, Shapiro \u201cshares powerful stories about his family, his faith, and his career in public service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGov. Shapiro reflects on what he has learned along his journey,\u201d Tuesday&#8217;s announcement reads in part, \u201cknocking on doors, serving his community, and bringing people together to tackle the tough problems we face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In April, a man <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pennsylvania-governor-shapiro-arson-balmer-7e96380007d5ffb8aed8174892d40f53\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set fire to the governor\u2019s mansion<\/a> while Shapiro and his family were sleeping inside, according to authorities. The Shapiros, who hours earlier had hosted a gathering for the Jewish holiday of Passover, were awakened by state police and ushered to safety. Cody Balmer <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pennsylvania-arson-governor-mansion-guilty-plea-495363112b0dfc8dddb7facce3c035af\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty last week<\/a> to charges of arson and attempted murder, and was sentenced under a plea deal to 25 to 50 years in state prison.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has a book coming out in January, touching upon everything&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6917,902,1681,49,35,38,8155,28,30,29,50,44],"class_list":["post-9992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-2024-united-states-presidential-election","tag-elections","tag-entertainment","tag-evacuations","tag-fires","tag-general-news","tag-josh-shapiro-pennsylvania-governor-book-january","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-politics","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}