{"id":42993,"date":"2025-04-21T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42993"},"modified":"2025-04-14T20:33:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T08:33:01","slug":"on-this-day-in-2016-a-dragon-quote-from-thornspell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/on-this-day-in-2016-a-dragon-quote-from-thornspell\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day In 2016 &#8212; A Dragon Quote from &#8220;Thornspell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Easter Monday and a public holiday, so rather than writing something new, I thought I&#8217;d reshare my post from this very date in 2016 &#8212; which turns out to be a dragon quote from <em>Thornspell<\/em>, so doubly fun. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29930 size-full\" 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>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>\u201cRue \u2026 was nowhere to be seen as he turned and stepped toward the fire. He snatched another glance back, in case he had missed her, and stopped short as a huge red and golden dragon soared out of the twisting streams of energy and reality. Sigismund stared, sure he must be delirious\u2014or really dreaming now\u2014and then the dragon and everything else disappeared as fire roared around him.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ Chapter 9, Substance and Shadow<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4378\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-723x1024.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Easter Monday and a public holiday, so rather than writing something new, I thought I&#8217;d reshare my post from this very date in 2016 &#8212; which turns out to be a dragon quote from Thornspell, so doubly fun. \ud83d\ude00 \u201cRue \u2026 was nowhere to be seen as he turned and stepped toward the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42993","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=42993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42996,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42993\/revisions\/42996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}