{"id":40384,"date":"2022-07-11T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T18:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40384"},"modified":"2022-07-10T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T06:44:00","slug":"the-wall-of-night-4-the-chaos-gate-update-deferral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/07\/11\/the-wall-of-night-4-the-chaos-gate-update-deferral\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wall of Night #4 (The Chaos Gate): Update Deferral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/04\/11\/the-wall-of-night-4-the-chaos-gate-update-april-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April,<\/a> I pledged another update on or around 7 July, but I&#8217;m going to defer that for now &#8212; albeit with many apologies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8859\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8859\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8859\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/etching_jaransor-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/etching_jaransor-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/etching_jaransor-125x150.jpg 125w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/etching_jaransor-857x1024.jpg 857w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/etching_jaransor.jpg 1289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Negotiating wild country&#8230; (Art credit:\u00a0 PJ Fitzpatrick)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The reason why is that I am currently in the middle of writing an important but proverbially thorny passage. While I am currently negotiating the briars, I prefer to keep my focus on maintaining momentum and reaching the other side of the &#8216;hedge of thorns.&#8217; (Yes it does make me feel like I&#8217;m back in <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/thornspell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Thornspell<\/em><\/a> territory, just a little.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29930\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29930\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29930\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/dragon_thornspell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/dragon_thornspell.jpg 167w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/dragon_thornspell-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230;&amp; here, too, be dragons!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It should also allow me to do a more meaningful update, which I hope you will agree is not the worst reason for &#8216;biding a wee&#8217; &#8212; but not for too much longer, I hope. Meanwhile, onward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, I pledged another update on or around 7 July, but I&#8217;m going to defer that for now &#8212; albeit with many apologies. The reason why is that I am currently in the middle of writing an important but proverbially thorny passage. 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