{"id":225,"date":"2013-06-06T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2013-06-06T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:13:44","slug":"more-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/06\/more-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"More updates – and the birthday giveaway has not yet ended!"},"content":{"rendered":"

First and foremost, it was my very great pleasure to read a review this morning on Goodreads<\/a> – an extract follows<\/p>\n

\nFlowing, eloquent descriptions of the region, traditions, music, and writings of the people of those times immerse the reader. I felt as if I were there, standing at “the high place” with the world spread out before me, walking in an ancient olive grove, hearing the soothing notes of a lyre. I wanted to be there, to be part of the exhilarating festivals, to share in the people’s sorrows, to face their challenges with them. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough, yet I hated to see the book end. <\/p>\n

Considering the depths of emotion explored, the lessons conveyed, and the story told, “In a Milk and Honeyed Land” is an astonishingly easy read. More than that, it’s utterly beautiful.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the full review, check out Goodreads<\/a>. As you can imagine, I was absolutely thrilled to find this! Meanwhile, here are some (modern) olive trees in the region of the four towns…<\/p>\n

\"Olive<\/p>\n

The birthday giveaway continues<\/strong> – some of the free download tokens have gone but others still remain, so if you want to receive a download token and instructions how to use it please contact me at books@kephrath.com soonish. Electronic copies only, I’m afraid, as the physical soft- or hard-back versions are not included in this.<\/p>\n

So meanwhile… updates continue over at the Kephrath site<\/a>. Some of them are just geeky things to bring the web technologies used up to date – the shiny new rotating news feed on the home page is one such, and the book review filter at http:\/\/www.kephrath.com\/BookReviews.aspx<\/a> is another. But as well as that I finally got the timeline page out at http:\/\/www.kephrath.com\/Timeline.aspx<\/a>. It’s fairly basic at the moment but from this point on I can enhance it as time permits.<\/p>\n

Keep watching for more changes… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First and foremost, it was my very great pleasure to read a review this morning on Goodreads – an extract follows Flowing, eloquent descriptions of the region, traditions, music, and writings of the people of those times immerse the reader. I felt as if I were there, standing at “the high place” with the world … Continue reading More updates – and the birthday giveaway has not yet ended!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-copies","category-review","category-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}