{"id":124,"date":"2014-02-21T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:52:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T18:52:44","slug":"illyria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Illyria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NewCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-125 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NewCover-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"NewCover\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NewCover-194x300.jpg 194w, http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NewCover-662x1024.jpg 662w, http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NewCover.jpg 1649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Illyria-front-in-JPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-127 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Illyria-front-in-JPG-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"Illyria front in JPG\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Illyria-front-in-JPG-192x300.jpg 192w, http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Illyria-front-in-JPG-654x1024.jpg 654w, http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Illyria-front-in-JPG.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>Illyria was my first book &#8212; first published book that is. The original cover was a photograph my father took of me when I was a toddler at the beach, trying to carry a strange looking beach ball. My brother Richard is in the carriage behind me. It kind of expressed everything I felt about trying to write this novel, which was difficult. The second cover used a painting from the 17th Century in Spain, which somehow managed to capture almost perfectly one of the scenes early in the book, when the three boys are playing a board game in the woods: one with great intensity, one less interested but observant, and the last very worried about something.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Illyria paperback\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Illyria-Thomas-F-Cook\/dp\/1448691109\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0\">Paperback edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Illyria Kindle edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Illyria-Thomas-Cook-ebook\/dp\/B00D1B4Z56\/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1\">Kindle edition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illyria was my first book &#8212; first published book that is. The original cover was a photograph my father took of me when I was a toddler at the beach, trying to carry a strange looking beach ball. My brother &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/?p=124\">Continue reading <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}