{"id":456,"date":"2016-07-05T09:17:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/?p=456"},"modified":"2016-07-05T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:17:30","slug":"whatever-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/2016\/07\/05\/whatever-it-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever it takes  . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to get\u00a0hopeful\u00a0emails from dedicated fans who are eager to hear good news about a publication date for Part 2 of <em>The Spirit Keeper<\/em>. \u00a0I&#8217;m sorry to report I have no news about that, but I really, really, really appreciate your supportive emails. \u00a0Without them, I might just give up.<\/p>\n<p>The only\u00a0news I have\u00a0right now is that I&#8217;m getting ready to follow in the footsteps of Katie and Hector as I head out to the Pacific Northwest for the last two weeks of July to try to drum up more\u00a0interest in Part 2. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have too many public\u00a0events set up out there, but if you live in Washington state or Vancouver BC, send me an email and maybe we can still work something out.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of my trip may be my visit to Vancouver island to meet an ardent fan of TSK who has become my dear pen pal. \u00a0She promised me a bed long ago if I should ever come her way, and I hope this teaches her to be careful what she says to strangers on the internet, because I&#8217;m coming. \u00a0On the other hand, she might end up tying me to that bed and breaking my legs a la Stephen King&#8217;s <em>Misery,<\/em> which will teach <em>me<\/em> a lesson about befriending people on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s the worst that could happen? \u00a0If she takes me hostage,\u00a0I figure\u00a0my sales of <em>The Spirit \u00a0Keeper<\/em> will surely go through the roof, which will finally\u00a0attract a publisher for Part 2!<\/p>\n<p>So I hope this proves to all of you that I&#8217;m willing to do whatever it takes to get Part 2 into your eager hands!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to get\u00a0hopeful\u00a0emails from dedicated fans who are eager to hear good news about a publication date for Part 2 of The Spirit Keeper. \u00a0I&#8217;m sorry to report I have no news about that, but I really, really, really appreciate your supportive emails. \u00a0Without them, I might just give up. The only\u00a0news I have\u00a0right [&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-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","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=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}