{"id":27632,"date":"2014-12-28T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27632"},"modified":"2014-12-29T17:22:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T04:22:53","slug":"an-epic-christmas-on-the-fourth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/28\/an-epic-christmas-on-the-fourth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"An Epic Christmas: On The Fourth Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/28\/an-epic-christmas-on-the-fourth-day\/gatheringofthelost-mm-1copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27636\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-mm-1Copy-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"GatheringoftheLost mm-1Copy\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-mm-1Copy-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-mm-1Copy-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-mm-1Copy.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a>On the fourth day of Christmas my true Muse sent to me\u2026<\/p>\n<h3><em>Four<\/em> Emerian Marches<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8216; \u201cEmer isn&#8217;t like the River,\u201d the rider said. His eyes narrowed, as though concentrating on something seen at a distance. \u201cIt hasn&#8217;t had the cities and the Guild to build a peace, or the Patrol to keep it. It wasn&#8217;t even a united country for a long time, just a host of little kingdoms vying against each other, and what peace there is has inched its way out from Caer Argent. The four marches were the very last to be brought under the Duke&#8217;s law, which is still a chancy thing in remote parts\u2014like here. You&#8217;re right about the link to the River, but that&#8217;s also one of the reasons this land has always been fought over.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>\u201cYou seem to know a lot about it,\u201d Carick observed.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Raven shrugged. \u201cI&#8217;ve picked up a little knowledge here and there, is all.\u201d &#8216;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~\u00a0 from \u00a9 <em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 11 \u2014 The Wolfpack<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/27\/an-epic-christmas-on-the-third-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Three weapons of power<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/26\/an-epic-christmas-on-the-second-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two mysterious heralds<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><em>and<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/25\/on-the-first-day-of-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">One chosen hero<\/a>!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the fourth day of Christmas my true Muse sent to me\u2026 Four Emerian Marches &#8216; \u201cEmer isn&#8217;t like the River,\u201d the rider said. His eyes narrowed, as though concentrating on something seen at a distance. \u201cIt hasn&#8217;t had the cities and the Guild to build a peace, or the Patrol to keep it. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-epicfantasy","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632","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=27632"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27656,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions\/27656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}