{"id":11936,"date":"2018-12-21T18:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T23:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11936"},"modified":"2018-12-21T18:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T23:37:51","slug":"dark-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11936","title":{"rendered":"Dark Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proxy.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.solahistorielag.no%2Fcmsmadesim%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2FVikingtid%2Ferlingboknred.jpg&amp;f=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It was 990 years ago<\/strong> today that Erling Skjalgsson (hero, in case you missed it, of my Viking novels) was treacherously killed by one of St. Olaf Haraldsson&#8217;s men at the battle of Boknafjord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My new Erling book is coming along, thanks for asking. I&#8217;m nearing the end of another draft, which I thought would be the final one. Not sure now. I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erling would have known this as St. Thomas&#8217;s Day. It&#8217;s the shortest of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 990 years ago today that Erling Skjalgsson (hero, in case you missed it, of my Viking novels) was treacherously killed by one of St. Olaf Haraldsson&#8217;s men at the battle of Boknafjord. My new Erling book is coming along, thanks for asking. I&#8217;m nearing the end of another draft, which I thought would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dark Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[898],"class_list":["post-11936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-erling-skjalgsson"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}