{"id":8896,"date":"2012-11-21T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=8896"},"modified":"2017-06-02T17:11:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T21:11:36","slug":"happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2012\/11\/happy-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This holiday celebrates the &#8216;launch&#8217; of the conclusion to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/\">The Legend of the Great Horse<\/a><\/strong> trilogy: <strong><em>Into the Dark<\/em><\/strong>. I&#8217;m grateful for being allowed to tell this story &#8230; it&#8217;s been an amazing trip in so many ways.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also very blessed in the support I&#8217;ve received! Now that the story is complete, I want to step back and share plans for the next phase:<\/p>\n<h3>A Ride through history in Artwork and Discussion<\/h3>\n<p>I invite folks to follow Meagan&#8217;s historical journey through <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Legend.of.the.Great.Horse\">&#8216;The Legend of the Great Horse&#8217; on <em>Facebook<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>page &#8230; it just started last week. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Etruscan_Horses_Tarquinia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8911\" title=\"Etruscan winged horses\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/0460_Etruscan-winged-horses_252px.jpg\" alt=\"Etruscan winged horses\" width=\"252\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Going through each time period chronologically should be a fun way to see the great historical horse pics others are posting.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to possible discussion about interesting history I learned while researching Meagan&#8217;s journey back in time &#8230; and developing a new blog about the importance of the horse in society.<\/p>\n<h3>Still Developing &#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>Some future ideas include an international &#8216;rollout&#8217; of the trilogy book and a series of book giveaways. I also plan to restart my &#8216;tweeting history&#8217; series, which still lingers in the European<em> &#8216;Dark Age&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;d like to relate my experience of writing and publishing in this new technological age we find ourselves in. It is in chaos. Best and worst of times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">____________<\/p>\n<h4>I want to thank everyone who has joined in the journey. Wherever you are, have a wonderful Thanksgiving! &#8211;John<\/h4>\n<p>____________<br \/>\nImage Credit<br \/>\n\u00a9 User: Realulim \/ Wikimedia Commons \/ CC-BY-SA-3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This holiday celebrates the &#8216;launch&#8217; of the conclusion to The Legend of the Great Horse trilogy: Into the Dark. I&#8217;m grateful for being allowed to tell this story &#8230; it&#8217;s been an amazing trip in so many ways. I&#8217;m also very blessed in the support I&#8217;ve received! Now that the story is complete, I want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2012\/11\/happy-thanksgiving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Thanksgiving!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[118,345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15194,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions\/15194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}