{"id":186,"date":"2026-01-04T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2026-01-04T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:46:25","slug":"book-launch-what-a-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Book launch &#8211; what a night!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wow! Two months after launching &#8220;it&#8217;s better to travel&#8221; in the basement of The Star of Kings basement, I am still buzzing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is testament to the book readers (Amrisha, Amris), DJs (Hiren, Aish, Ryan and Pritpal) and above all, Marc (host, interviewer) that I still feel a sense of excitement when thinking back to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I deliberately wished to create an air of mystery with the book launch and for this reason, did not introduce Amrisha as the first book reader. Instead the lights were turned down low and the magic began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some photographs and videos from what was a special night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Book signing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2b41dc64-ded8-47d4-834a-3109e8557728.mp4\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amrisha reading part of the New York chapter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9b5e70ae-3f71-4ffc-b0e1-95a9f77d804b.mp4\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f1082fec-e451-4275-905d-18bf75384460.mp4\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q and A with 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Two months after launching &#8220;it&#8217;s better to travel&#8221; in the basement of The Star of Kings basement, I am still buzzing. It is testament to the book readers (Amrisha, Amris), DJs (Hiren, Aish, Ryan and Pritpal) and above all, Marc (host, interviewer) that I still feel a sense of excitement when thinking back to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/?p=186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book launch &#8211; what a night!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsbettertotravelbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}