{"id":11196,"date":"2025-04-16T06:08:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=9382"},"modified":"2025-04-16T06:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:08:54","slug":"my-new-book-released-one-mans-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/my-new-book-released-one-mans-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Book Released: One Man&#8217;s Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2010, <em>One Man&#8217;s Beach: A Thousand Rambles Down Nestucca Spit <\/em>was nearly published by a national publisher. The deal fell through. \u201cToo regional,\u201d someone in New York said. For reasons I no longer recall, I shelved the project. Fifteen years later, I returned to Nestucca Spit and rambled once again, with a new dog, and the experience convinced me to release this book as it was written with a new introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>One Man\u2019s Beach<\/em><em> <\/em>is a book of memoir, history, dogs, polemic, sex, beer, ecology, meditation, and photographs about a special stretch of sand and dunes that was almost destroyed in the 1960s by an insane plan to relocate Highway 101 right through it. One man, a politician named Bob Straub saved it forever and I am eternally grateful for his heroism. Without Nestucca Spit and Oregon&#8217;s unprecedented legacy of publicly-owned beaches, I would have never become a writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Available as an e-book on Amazon or contact me through the web site for a PDF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for supporting and independent Oregon publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One Man&#039;s Beach: A Thousand Rambles Down Nestucca Spit\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"1165\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_2sRfmvENZDhpoN&#038;asin=B0DZYZK7T8&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, One Man&#8217;s Beach: A Thousand Rambles Down Nestucca Spit was nearly published by a national publisher. The deal fell through. \u201cToo regional,\u201d someone in New York said. For reasons I no longer recall, I shelved the project. Fifteen years later, I returned to Nestucca Spit and rambled once again, with a new dog, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,13],"tags":[84,123,630,681,739,841],"class_list":["post-11196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-oregon-beaches","category-oregon-coast_history","tag-beach-bill","tag-bob-straub","tag-matt-love","tag-nestucca-spit","tag-oregon-beaches","tag-pacific-city","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}