{"id":371,"date":"2012-07-09T15:48:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2012-07-10T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T12:45:24","slug":"371","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/sword-and-sorcery\/371","title":{"rendered":"Wandering the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With my writing schedule back under control I&#8217;ve been wandering around spreading good cheer and talking about great fantasy writers. On the off chance there are some people who visit my site who don&#8217;t regularly visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/\"><em>Black Gate<\/em> web site<\/a>, I thought I should point you toward two recent posts celebrating two of my favorite authors.<\/p>\n<p>The first is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/2012\/07\/04\/leigh-brackett-american-writer\/\">about Leigh Brackett, and features a lengthy excerpt<\/a> from the opening of one of her fine sword-and-planet stories so interested folks can see why she&#8217;s so lauded.<\/p>\n<p>The second I just took live earlier today,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/2012\/07\/09\/under-the-hood-with-robert-e-howard\/\"> and it is all about Robert E. Howard&#8217;s writing<\/a>. I spend a little more time discussing the whys and wherefores, peeking under the hood, as it were, arguing that he is far more than he is assumed to be.<\/p>\n<p>If these sorts of posts prove popular, I have other writers in mind to look at as well.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these writer celebrations, I&#8217;ve been doing a little mulling over the purpose of blogging as promotion, and it provoked some lively discussion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/2012\/07\/06\/pulling-off-or-putting-on-the-blog-mask\/\">You can find it by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my writing schedule back under control I&#8217;ve been wandering around spreading good cheer and talking about great fantasy writers. On the off chance there are some people who visit my site who don&#8217;t regularly visit the Black Gate web site, I thought I should point you toward two recent posts celebrating two of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sword-and-sorcery","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}