{"id":14588,"date":"2009-09-23T18:16:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T23:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14588"},"modified":"2009-09-23T18:16:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T23:16:58","slug":"the-long-cold-night-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14588","title":{"rendered":"The long, cold night is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse MacBeth&#8217;s book is finally out and here he is to hawk it;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZrITBTeFMSQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZrITBTeFMSQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>He claims it explains why he did what he did &#8211; but don&#8217;t get your hopes up. This is from his publisher&#8217;s bio;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was born in tucson arizona in 1984. I grew up in group homes. I was an orpan. A child that never knew his father, and unwanted by his mother. I married the love of my life in april of 2008. I just have to thank allah for making everything possiable for me. for getting me through my rough start and blessing me with everything i ever dreamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s the author&#8217;s bio just how it appears on the publisher&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mala&#8217;ik the Fallen<\/em> is overpriced at $20 for a 112 page paperback and it&#8217;s not on Kindle, so I&#8217;ll pass for now. It might be interesting, since it looks like what MacBeth writes best &#8211; total fiction. Here&#8217;s an excerpt;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s coming, my angel . . . the flames are coming\u201d, Anya said fearfully as men stepped forward with torches. Their eyes sparkling in the torchlight, \u201cbe cleansed by the fires of heaven\u201d, they said and lit the pyre. The flames sprung to life as if they were eager to consume us. I stared through the fiery haze and at the people cheering in the night. I knew it could only be a moment before the flames touched us. I could hear Anya\u2019s heart beat in her chest, could feel her fear as the fire got&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His YouTube site says;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>like i said befor 10 % of every book sold will be donated to a wounded soldiers program of your choice so leave comments on wich one u would like me to make the donation to. the more book u all buy the more i can donate so lets make it happen. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather give directly to a charity.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t want to buy the book, TSO has thrown himself on the grenade for us and he&#8217;s already ordered it.<\/p>\n<p>PS: Caroline &#8211; TSO tells me that your birthday gift book is still #2 on the list to be read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse MacBeth&#8217;s book is finally out and here he is to hawk it; He claims it &hellip; <a title=\"The long, cold night is over\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14588\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The long, cold night is over<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}