{"id":5511,"date":"2015-01-20T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2015-01-20T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:05:23","slug":"magic-makeup-crypts-clownfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5511","title":{"rendered":"Magic &#038; makeup, crypts &#038; clownfish&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My magical realist novella,<em>\u00a0Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs,<\/em>\u00a0will be published in paperback and ebook formats later this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOnce we looked to earthquakes to gauge the mood of God. I mean, I\u2019ve seen some sights since the fourth century\u2026 but lately things have taken a creative turn.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More details to follow, but here&#8217;s some blurb to tide you over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Saint Silvan is a miracle. Since he died two thousand years ago, not one atom of his beautiful body has succumbed to the natural decay of the flesh. But the planet is not so fortunate. In a small church in Croatia\u2019s Dubrovnik, Silvan lies in state for the veneration of the faithful while nation after nation succumbs to the rising tides\u00a0of climate change. When an immortal dandy\u00a0calling himself Az offers Silvan a job boosting humanity\u2019s morale by prettifying the revered dead, Silvan is eager to offer his talents, unaware that someone may be playing him for a holy fool.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From Imperial Rome to Soviet Russia, Silvan crosses the worlds of the living and the dead to uncover his past and divine his future in a dying world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a story of magic and makeup, crypts and clownfish.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5607\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/saintsilvan2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5607\" class=\"wp-image-5607 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/saintsilvan2.jpg\" alt=\"saintsilvan2\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/saintsilvan2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/saintsilvan2-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/saintsilvan2-465x300.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Silvan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My magical realist novella,\u00a0Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs,\u00a0will be published in paperback and ebook formats later this year. \u201cOnce we looked to earthquakes to gauge the mood of God. I mean, I\u2019ve seen some sights since the fourth century\u2026 but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5511\">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":[26,14],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beauty-secrets-of-the-martyrs","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}