{"id":250,"date":"2021-09-15T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/?p=250"},"modified":"2021-11-06T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T11:25:44","slug":"beforetimes-the-harrower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/2021\/09\/15\/beforetimes-the-harrower\/","title":{"rendered":"Beforetimes: The Harrower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1PqdJL35sctWHjoWPaf2inz3EGUHpIIv7\/view?usp=sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BeforetimesCoverHarrower_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-255 size-full\"\/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The first short story in the <em>Beforetimes<\/em> series is &#8220;The Harrower&#8221; in which the Mother wishes to exert power over the Continent by defying the highest Law of the land: she permits a Harrower to live under her rule. The Harrower doesn&#8217;t have a problem with that&#8230;until he realizes maybe he <em>should<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here to read now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Afterlands-Beforetimes-22The-Harrower22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>     <\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/epubs\/001%20Afterlands%20_%20Beforetimes%20The%20Harrower.epub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EPUB<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The first novella in the <em>Afterlands<\/em> series (Book I) will be available December 18, 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, four short stories about what happened <em>before<\/em> the opening pages of Book I will be presented on this website as <em>free<\/em> downloads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each story highlights the main characters of <em>Afterlands<\/em> and reveals events leading to the end of the Continent&#8217;s twenty-year war between the King and his sister&#8217;s cult of &#8220;the Mother&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">[Please keep in mind that Beforetimes tales may be dark as they all occur well before the &#8220;dawn&#8221;.]\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first short story in the Beforetimes series is &#8220;The Harrower&#8221; in which the Mother wishes to exert power over the Continent by defying the highest Law of the land: she permits a Harrower to live under her rule. The Harrower doesn&#8217;t have a problem with that&#8230;until he realizes maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beforetimes","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}