{"id":3545,"date":"2015-02-13T16:52:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2015-02-13T16:52:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:52:03","slug":"back-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/news\/back-soon","title":{"rendered":"Back Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Kirk_Kelinda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1685\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Kirk_Kelinda-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Kirk_Kelinda\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Kirk_Kelinda-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Kirk_Kelinda.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Bill and I will return next week to start on the final leg of Lord Dunsany&#8217;s <em>Time and The Gods<\/em> anthology. There are only six left, and then we&#8217;ll be turning to the first fantasy book I ever read, <em>Swords Against Death<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend my lady and I (pictured on the left) will be spending some quality time together. May you all be so fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I just learned I got the most votes in <em>Black Gate<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/2015\/02\/09\/who-should-be-writing-the-cthulhu-mythos-today-announcing-the-winners-of-weirder-shadows-over-innsmouth\/#more-95695\">who should write in the Cthulhu mythos today<\/a>&#8221; contest. That was pretty cool, and totally unexpected. I suppose that Dabir and Asim DO face off against lots of weird menaces. I approach horror more like REH did most of the time, though, like an ingredient to season a story rather than the entire focus of one.<\/p>\n<p>This surprising win does have me thinking about whether I should try to tackle writing some horror straight on, although it will have to take a back seat to the various projects I&#8217;ve already got cooking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill and I will return next week to start on the final leg of Lord Dunsany&#8217;s Time and The Gods anthology. There are only six left, and then we&#8217;ll be turning to the first fantasy book I ever read, Swords Against Death. This weekend my lady and I (pictured on the left) will be spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}