{"id":10579,"date":"2011-12-21T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=10579"},"modified":"2015-03-19T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T08:48:21","slug":"guest-blog-post-on-sf-signal-having-fun-with-epic-fantasy-the-soul-sucking-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/12\/21\/guest-blog-post-on-sf-signal-having-fun-with-epic-fantasy-the-soul-sucking-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blog Post on SF Signal: &#8220;Having fun With Epic Fantasy&#8212;The Soul-Sucking Sword&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a guest post up on SF-Signal again today&#8212;the third and final (for the moment!)\u00a0 in my <strong>\u201cHaving Fun with Epic Fantasy\u201d<\/strong> mini-series. Here&#8217;s how it begins:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><em>&#8220;Having Fun with Epic Fantasy: The Soul-Sucking Sword<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><em>So over the past couple of weeks, to help get through that run-up to Christmas-New Year craziness, I&#8217;ve been having some fun with epic fantasy, first &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/12\/guest_post_helen_lowe_on_having_fun_with_epic_fantasy_making_the_grand_tour\/\">Making the Grand Tour<\/a>&#8221; (aka the quest-journey) and secondly looking at the importance of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/12\/guest_post_helen_lowe_on_having_fun_with_epic_fantasy_the_band_of_brothers\/\">Band of Brothers<\/a>&#8221; when embarking on that quest. And this week, with the festive holiday nearly upon us, I felt I just had to look at &#8220;elves&#8221; with soul-sucking swords.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can find out all about the soul-sucking sword <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/12\/guest_post_helen_lowe_on_having_fun_with_epic_fantasy_the_soul-sucking_sword\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>&#8212;and I hope you will. Don&#8217;t be shy either; I dinna bite so you&#8221;ll be quite safe posting a comment. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a guest post up on SF-Signal again today&#8212;the third and final (for the moment!)\u00a0 in my \u201cHaving Fun with Epic Fantasy\u201d mini-series. Here&#8217;s how it begins: . &#8220;Having Fun with Epic Fantasy: The Soul-Sucking Sword So over the past couple of weeks, to help get through that run-up to Christmas-New Year craziness, I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epicfantasy","category-sf-signal-guest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10579"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28532,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions\/28532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}