{"id":303,"date":"2020-01-12T19:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T03:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/?p=303"},"modified":"2020-01-29T01:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T09:02:35","slug":"a-cold-and-wild-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/12\/a-cold-and-wild-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A cold and wild world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Winter is the deep freeze, and it&#8217;s been around -30F since before Christmas with few breaks, dipping as low as -60 or colder in parts of Interior Alaska (the cold bit &#8212; the coasts are typically much warmer). But that&#8217;s what it does here, and in a way it&#8217;s a relief, with the warming Arctic and all that goes along with it, to have a halfway normal winter for a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve just done a much-needed site update, cleaning out old links and making sure the <a href=\"http:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/books\/\">Books<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/short-stories\/\">Short Stories<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/shows\/\">Shows<\/a> pages are up to date. (Aside from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1633307856801225\/1819407354857940\/\">Alaska Comicon<\/a>, where I&#8217;ve already reserved a table, the shows later in the year are still very much TBD, but these are the ones I&#8217;ve done in the past.) I also did a big update on my <a href=\"https:\/\/laurenesker.com\/\">Lauren Esker<\/a> website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really haven&#8217;t had much that&#8217;s new lately, aside from writing under the Lauren Esker and Zoe Chant pen names and <a href=\"https:\/\/suncutter.tumblr.com\/\">Sun-Cutter<\/a>&#8216;s ongoing progress, but there are big plans afoot for 2020. I&#8217;m planning to reboot the Gatekeeper series (currently writing the last book in the trilogy) and I have another series as well, a historical series of steampunk murder mysteries set in the 1930s. I&#8217;ll have more information on both of those and a publishing schedule for the year to come soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, enjoy another glimpse of our frozen world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200102_145055_resize_90-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200102_145055_resize_90-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200102_145055_resize_90-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200102_145055_resize_90-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200102_145055_resize_90-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200102_145055_resize_90-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200102_145055_resize_90.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter is the deep freeze, and it&#8217;s been around -30F since before Christmas with few breaks, dipping as low as -60 or colder in parts of Interior Alaska (the cold bit &#8212; the coasts are typically much warmer). But that&#8217;s what it does here, and in a way it&#8217;s a relief, with the warming Arctic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/12\/a-cold-and-wild-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A cold and wild world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-state-of-the-studio","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}