{"id":126,"date":"2013-09-24T09:34:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/?p=126"},"modified":"2013-09-24T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T14:17:31","slug":"who-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/2013\/09\/24\/who-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books these days are rarely sold on their own merits. Instead they\u2019re primped, polished, &amp; produced as part of a package, one portion of which is the persona of the author him\/herself. Alas, I fear I make a poor commodity. I\u2019m too old, too disheveled, &amp; too likely to speak my mind, which is risky because I\u2019m also pretty stupid. Lucky for me, most consumers aren\u2019t exactly geniuses either. (Uh-oh. I think I just insulted potential book-buyers. I told you my mouth can\u2019t be trusted!)\u00a0The point is, I never wanted to sell myself. I just wanted to share an amazing story I thought some people might respond to. But who am I to change the way business is done in America today? Like it or not, I <em>am<\/em> part of the package. So sell myself I must if I expect to create public demand for <em>The Spirit Keeper, Part II<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, fine. If you must know, I had a peculiar childhood. My mother was a wacky, red-haired housewife named Lucy Ricardo &amp; my father was James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise.<\/span> <em>Now<\/em> what\u2019s the matter? My personal history isn\u2019t true enough for you? Well, it\u2019s as true as anything can be. It\u2019s as true as <em>The Spirit Keeper<\/em>, which isn\u2019t exactly a true story, but, then again, it\u2019s not exactly <strong>NOT<\/strong> a true story either. Truth is, <em>I was captured by Indians <\/em>when I was 17\u2014or at least I was captivated by <em>stories<\/em> about Indians\u2014and they actually did carry me off to worlds unknown.\u00a0So maybe you can begin to see my problem when it comes to selling myself. Which self do I sell? There are so many to choose from. I guess it\u2019s like my mom always used to say: When the assembly line of life starts speeding up, eat as many chocolates as you can and stuff the rest down your shirt.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure how that applies here, but it\u2019s the sort of advice that makes me hungry, so I say, let\u2019s all go eat some chocolate and while we\u2019re at it, let\u2019s just <em>pretend<\/em> I\u2019ve sold myself to you so that from now on the mere mention of my name will make you salivate in sweet anticipation.<br \/>\nK.B. Laugheed<\/p>\n<p>. . . mmmmm, chocolate . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books these days are rarely sold on their own merits. Instead they\u2019re primped, polished, &amp; produced as part of a package, one portion of which is the persona of the author him\/herself. Alas, I fear I make a poor commodity. I\u2019m too old, too disheveled, &amp; too likely to speak my mind, which is risky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}