{"id":27640,"date":"2014-12-29T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27640"},"modified":"2014-12-29T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T04:21:32","slug":"an-epic-christmas-on-the-fifth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/29\/an-epic-christmas-on-the-fifth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"An Epic Christmas: On The Fifth Day\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/29\/an-epic-christmas-on-the-fifth-day\/heirofnight_no-foil-indd-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27646\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27646\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Heir-of-Night-UK-front-cover2-141x300.jpg\" alt=\"HeirOfNight_Tile\" width=\"141\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>On the fifth day of Christmas my true Muse sent to me\u2026<\/p>\n<h3><em>Five<\/em> Messenger Horses<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8216;There were five horses, all black as night and as beautiful, with spirited heads, deep chests denoting endurance and legs built for speed. All five horses were equipped for a long journey, with a travel roll and journey bags strapped behind each saddle, and they snorted and stamped their hooves as they waited. &#8220;But\u2014these are messenger horses!&#8221; Kalan exclaimed.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;I know,&#8221; said Malian. Her eyes were blazing with excitement. &#8221; Asantir says they will outrun and outlast anything else in the keep.&#8221; &#8216;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span>~ <em>from <em><em>\u00a9 <\/em><\/em>The Heir Of Night<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book One: Chapter 24 \u2014 The Long Goodbye<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/28\/an-epic-christmas-on-the-fourth-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Four Emerian marches<\/a><\/h3>\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>!<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the fifth day of Christmas my true Muse sent to me\u2026 Five Messenger Horses &#8216;There were five horses, all black as night and as beautiful, with spirited heads, deep chests denoting endurance and legs built for speed. All five horses were equipped for a long journey, with a travel roll and journey bags strapped [&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-27640","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\/27640","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=27640"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27655,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27640\/revisions\/27655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}