{"id":8632,"date":"2014-10-07T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:03:49","slug":"bright-light-city-gonna-set-my-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/07\/bright-light-city-gonna-set-my-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Light City Gonna Set My Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ll be embarking on a trip to the City of Lights<\/em> for the Guild of Book Workers<\/a> annual Standards of Excellence Seminar<\/a>, which will take place at the Excalibur Hotel. I’m looking forward to the late night excitement, warm weather and chatting with all the wonderful book-y people\u00a0attracted to this event. Plus all the leather (for bookbinding, of course) that I’ll be buying.<\/p>\n

Look forward to a post about the Seminar upon my return mid-October.<\/p>\n

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I’ll be embarking on a trip to the City of Lights for the Guild of Book Workers annual Standards of Excellence Seminar, which will take place at the Excalibur Hotel. I’m looking forward to the late night excitement, warm weather and chatting with all the wonderful book-y people\u00a0attracted to this event. Plus all the leather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[1867,1587,173,190,1160],"class_list":["post-8632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbinding","tag-bookbinding","tag-conference","tag-erin-fletcher","tag-guild-of-book-workers","tag-standards-of-excellence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-2fe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9101,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/moving-images-guild-of-book-workers-promo-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":8632,"position":0},"title":"Moving Images: Guild of Book Workers Promo Video","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"January 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O4ta6BZSGiM Check out this delightful promotional video from the Guild of Book Workers. 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