{"id":386,"date":"2022-04-14T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/?p=386"},"modified":"2022-04-14T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T12:32:14","slug":"betweentimes-to-the-flame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/2022\/04\/14\/betweentimes-to-the-flame\/","title":{"rendered":"Betweentimes: To the Flame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/02-Betweentimes-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-383 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/02-Betweentimes-thumb.jpg 468w, https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/02-Betweentimes-thumb-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The second vignette in the <em>Betweentimes<\/em> series is \u201cTo the Flame\u201d and may be considered more &#8220;required&#8221; reading for <em>Afterlands<\/em> as a bridge between Book I and II. This piece is about yearning, contact, and facing the void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Betweentimes<\/em> are slices-of-life about tossed things, lost things, and making the best of bad situations as our survivors navigate the new world order following the events of <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/2021\/12\/17\/afterlands-after-the-harrowing-book-i\/\">Afterlands: After the Harrowing<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. Stories are presented on this website, always free to download. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are new to <em>Afterlands<\/em>, it might help to familiarize yourself with the characters and events of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/books\/\">previous stories<\/a> first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7.6k words. Click format to read now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/002-Afterlands-Betweentimes-To-The-Flame.pdf\">PDF<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/epubs\/002%20Afterlands%20Betweentimes%20To%20The%20Flame.epub\">EPUB<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n[<em>Betweentimes<\/em> vignettes may contain material sensitive in nature. This one has explicit sexual content, references to mental health concerns, and past trauma.]\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second vignette in the Betweentimes series is \u201cTo the Flame\u201d and may be considered more &#8220;required&#8221; reading for Afterlands as a bridge between Book I and II. This piece is about yearning, contact, and facing the void. Betweentimes are slices-of-life about tossed things, lost things, and making the best&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-betweentimes","wpcat-9-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}