{"id":17798,"date":"2015-02-17T13:32:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17798"},"modified":"2015-02-17T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:32:45","slug":"blackburn-publishes-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17798","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn publishes new novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Voice-of-the-Children-in-the-Apple-Tree.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-small-size wp-image-17799\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Voice-of-the-Children-in-the-Apple-Tree-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"Voice of the Children in the Apple Tree\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Voice-of-the-Children-in-the-Apple-Tree-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Voice-of-the-Children-in-the-Apple-Tree-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Voice-of-the-Children-in-the-Apple-Tree-555x833.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Voice-of-the-Children-in-the-Apple-Tree.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>Alexander Blackburn, professor emeritus, Department of English, recently published &#8220;The Voice of the Children in the Apple Tree,&#8221; a story of love that blossoms in the dawn of the atomic age.<\/p>\n<p>The 498-page book was published in January by Rhyolite Press, Colorado Springs. It is available in paperback or as a Kindle download from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>This is Blackburn&#8217;s fourth published novel. Others include the critically acclaimed &#8220;The Door of the Sad People,&#8221; a historical fiction novel published by Rhyolite in 2014 and patterned after the Colorado coal mining wars culminating in the Ludlow Massacre of 1914.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Alexander Blackburn, professor emeritus, Department of English, recently published &#8220;The Voice of the Children in the Apple Tree,&#8221; a story of love that blossoms in the dawn of the atomic age. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17798\" title=\"Blackburn publishes new novel\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-kudos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Voice-of-the-Children-in-the-Apple-Tree-100x150.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-4D4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17800,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17798\/revisions\/17800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}