{"id":289,"date":"2013-12-22T20:45:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2013-12-22T20:45:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:45:17","slug":"scenes-from-a-life-soft-cover-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/22\/scenes-from-a-life-soft-cover-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from a Life &#8211; soft cover now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Scenes from a Life<\/em> is now available in soft cover. At least, I have proof-checked the final version and clicked the button which says to distribute it. I gather it will take a short time for the various global sites to list it as ready-to-ship, but to all intents and purposes it is now out in the world!<\/p>\n<p>Purchase links are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon.co.uk: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Scenes-Life-Richard-Abbott\/dp\/0954553594\/\" title=\"Amazon.co.uk purchase link\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Scenes-Life-Richard-Abbott\/dp\/0954553594\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Amazon.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scenes-Life-Richard-Abbott\/dp\/0954553594\/\" title=\"Amazon.com purchase link\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scenes-Life-Richard-Abbott\/dp\/0954553594\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the cover image&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41iuShVvayL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_SX385_SY500_CR,0,0,385,500_SH20_OU02_.jpg\" alt=\"Scenes from a Life - soft cover 'look inside'\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the curious, the glyphs on the front read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMakty-Rasut, true of voice<br \/>\nand his beloved Milashuniyet, true of voice.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is taken from the closing part of the tomb inscription which Makty has prepared, which reads more fully:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nO you who pass by this place, speak out a voice offering to the gods in bread and beer, papyrus and turquoise, and in everything good and pure for the life of Makty-Rasut, true of voice, and for his beloved Milashuniyet, true of voice.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenes from a Life is now available in soft cover. At least, I have proof-checked the final version and clicked the button which says to distribute it. I gather it will take a short time for the various global sites to list it as ready-to-ship, but to all intents and purposes it is now out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/22\/scenes-from-a-life-soft-cover-now-available\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scenes from a Life &#8211; soft cover now available<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-release","category-scenes-from-a-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}