{"id":23971,"date":"2014-01-17T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=23971"},"modified":"2014-01-11T21:27:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T08:27:36","slug":"a-geography-of-haarth-main-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/a-geography-of-haarth-main-road\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geography Of Haarth: Main Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3149\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/sir-julius-vogel-award-nominations-best-artwork\/wallofnight_map_small-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3149\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3149\" title=\"wallofnight_map_small\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wallofnight_map_small-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/a-geography-of-haarth\/\">A Geography of Haarth<\/a> post series is traversing the full range of locales and places from <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\">The Wall of Night<\/a> world of Haarth.<\/p>\n<p>This week, together with the New Year, we enter &#8220;M&#8221;&#8212; the halfway point, alphabetically at least, of the series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Main Road:\u00a0<\/strong> the road that runs the length of the River lands, which is maintained by the Company of Engineers from Ar and kept safe by the Patrol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;Spring came to the River in a flurry of blustering winds and driving rain that turned the local roads into quagmires and hurled the first fragile blossoms to the ground. Two heralds were blown out of the city of Terebanth with the weather and turned east toward Ij, following the great Main Road that had endured since the days of the Old Empire.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ from <em><em>\u00a9 <\/em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Two; Chapter 1 &#8212; The Road To Ij<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A Geography of Haarth post series is traversing the full range of locales and places from The Wall of Night world of Haarth. This week, together with the New Year, we enter &#8220;M&#8221;&#8212; the halfway point, alphabetically at least, of the series. &#8212; Main Road:\u00a0 the road that runs the length of the River [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-geography-of-haarth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23971","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=23971"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23981,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23971\/revisions\/23981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}