{"id":14618,"date":"2025-07-16T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14618\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T20:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:27:07","slug":"cajun-fiddle-playing-pixie-book-offered-free-at-melbas-entertainment-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14618\/","title":{"rendered":"Cajun fiddle-playing pixie book offered free at Melba&#8217;s | Entertainment\/Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen up and pay attention: meet a UC Irvine professor, get a book and enjoy a po-boy\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Gloria Mark.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full white\" width=\"1206\" height=\"1717\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Gloria Mark, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>                                    PROVIDED PHOTO<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gloria Mark, chancellor&#8217;s professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, will sign her book &#8220;Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity&#8221; at Melba&#8217;s po-boy shop, 1525 Elysian Fields Ave., Friday from noon to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Buy a po-boy and receive a free copy of the book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A leader in the field of human-computer interaction, Mark has spoken on how digital devices and the internet have affected people&#8217;s ability to focus, the stress of multitasking and how to regain focus when needed.<\/p>\n<p>The book giveaway is part of the restaurant&#8217;s Literacy Project for Every Kinda People.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen up and pay attention: meet a UC Irvine professor, get a book and enjoy a po-boy\u00a0 Gloria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88,13976,8803,6099,688,13975],"class_list":{"0":"post-14618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gerber","11":"tag-hardwall","12":"tag-new-orleans","13":"tag-photography","14":"tag-poboys"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}