{"id":573263,"date":"2015-03-31T10:39:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/?p=573263"},"modified":"2015-03-31T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T16:39:18","slug":"jo-dee-messina-co-authors-new-chicken-soup-for-the-soul-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/articles\/jo-dee-messina-co-authors-new-chicken-soup-for-the-soul-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo Dee Messina Co-Authors New \u2018Chicken Soup for the Soul\u2019 Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/jo-dee-messina-chicken-soup-for-the-soul-thanks-to-my-mom-book-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-573264\" src=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/jo-dee-messina-chicken-soup-for-the-soul-thanks-to-my-mom-book-cover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"jo-dee-messina-chicken-soup-for-the-soul-thanks-to-my-mom-book-cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/jo-dee-messina-chicken-soup-for-the-soul-thanks-to-my-mom-book-cover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/jo-dee-messina-chicken-soup-for-the-soul-thanks-to-my-mom-book-cover-238x357.jpg 238w, https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/jo-dee-messina-chicken-soup-for-the-soul-thanks-to-my-mom-book-cover.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-573263-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/peacesign.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/peacesign.mp3\">https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/peacesign.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div id=\"tsm-clipoard-container\">\n<p>Jo Dee Messina can now add \u201cauthor\u201d to her list of credits. The singer co-wrote a new <em>Chicken Soup for the Soul<\/em> book, <em>Thanks to My Mom<\/em>, with the series\u2019 publisher and editor-in-chief, Amy Newmark.<\/p>\n<p>Messina wrote the introduction and first chapter and, together with Newmark, selected 100 stories from people all over the country, who honored their mothers through the memories they shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis book is a gigantic Thank You to my mom and yours,\u201d Messina\u00a0says, \u201cwith stories that will make them smile, laugh out loud and even tear up a few times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the Massachusetts native, authoring a book wasn\u2019t a far stretch from her regular job as an artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just a writer in general,\u201d Messina shares on MariaShriver.com. \u201cI blog, and I write songs. When I was approached by <em>Chicken Soup<\/em> to do this book, I was thrilled because I love writing and because it also has to do with moms. My mother and I were very, very close when I was young.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo Dee Messina can now add \u201cauthor\u201d to her list of credits. The singer co-wrote a new Chicken Soup for the Soul book, Thanks to My Mom, with the series\u2019 publisher and editor-in-chief, Amy Newmark. Messina wrote the introduction and first chapter and, together with Newmark, selected 100 stories from people all over the country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":573264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-573263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 03:20:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}