{"id":409,"date":"2012-11-16T07:55:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/advanced1498.inmotionhosting.com\/~geargear\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2012-11-16T08:28:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:58:32","slug":"southeastern-literary-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/southeastern-literary-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUTHEASTERN LITERARY TOURISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear All:<\/p>\n<p>We just saw the most fascinating piece done on PEOPLE OF THE WEEPING EYE, PEOPLE OF THE THUNDER, A SEARING WIND and PEOPLE OF THE MORNING STAR.  Patrick Brian Miller, a superb author in his own right, is the brilliant director of the:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/southeasternliterarytourisminitiative.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/southeasternliterarytourisminitiative.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been working with him for a little over a month now.  Patrick&#8217;s quest is to enable the reader to visit, in person or on the web, those actual places used in fiction.  We&#8217;re honored and delighted that he used our novels as the first links to actual archaeologicals sites in Alabama, Tennessee, and Illinois.  We&#8217;re hoping that our publishers will add the links to our ebooks as well.  Literary tourism creates an added value to the reading experience.  It shouts, &#8220;Hey, guys! It&#8217;s real.  And you can visit the same locations as the characters inhabit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As authors, we get to live the experience first hand, for instance, climbing the steps of Monk&#8217;s Mound in Cahokia with Matron Heron, as you&#8217;ll eventually read in PEOPLE OF THE MORNING STAR. Through Patrick&#8217;s efforts, all of our readers will now share in the magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear All: We just saw the most fascinating piece done on PEOPLE OF THE WEEPING EYE, PEOPLE OF THE THUNDER, A SEARING WIND and PEOPLE OF THE MORNING STAR. Patrick Brian Miller, a superb author in his own right, is the brilliant director of the: http:\/\/southeasternliterarytourisminitiative.blogspot.com\/ We&#8217;ve been working with him for a little over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}