{"id":867,"date":"2015-06-21T08:18:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T17:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=867"},"modified":"2015-06-20T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T23:22:36","slug":"june-21st-in-the-presidents-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"June 21st \u2013 In the President\u2019s Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"June 21st \u2013 In the President\u2019s Shadow\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=867\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Presidents-shadow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-869\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Presidents-shadow-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"Presidents shadow\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Presidents-shadow-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Presidents-shadow.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brad Meltzer is one of my favorite writers.\u00a0 He writes historical fiction and documentary non-fiction.\u00a0 Last week his most recent book, <em>The President\u2019s Shadow<\/em> was released and he began a book signing tour around the nation.\u00a0 The cover page of the book is shown on this page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today also marks my first day back at writing daily blog articles for several weeks.\u00a0 I wish I had a good excuse for \u201cgoing black\u201d and not posting.\u00a0 The plain truth is that I did not make daily posting a priority and the longer I went without posting the easier it was to leave posting on the shelf.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would like to be able to say I gave up posting to read Brad\u2019 latest book, but that also not the truth.\u00a0 I have bought a copy but have not started reading it yet.\u00a0 I am convinced I will enjoy the book once I begin reading it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope my resuming the blog today will be an encouragement for you to resume an activity you have let fall by the wayside.\u00a0 It is my experience that once we resume these habits we feel better and have a higher level of productivity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Readers are always invited to use the contact form to comment on a post. I would truly love to hear from readers who are glad I have resumed this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Brad Meltzer is one of my favorite writers.\u00a0 He writes historical fiction and documentary non-fiction.\u00a0 Last week his most recent book, The President\u2019s Shadow was released and he began a book signing tour around the nation.\u00a0 The cover page of the book is shown on this page. &nbsp; Today also marks my first day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=867\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">June 21st \u2013 In the President\u2019s Shadow<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}