{"id":30,"date":"2015-12-04T15:55:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2015-12-04T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:55:45","slug":"sevengate-the-harvest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/?page_id=30","title":{"rendered":"Sevengate: The Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/306\/2014\/03\/CliveWeb-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"9781631351099-Perfect.indd\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/306\/2014\/03\/CliveWeb-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/306\/2014\/03\/CliveWeb.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>About the Book<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThursday\u2019s Child,\u201d aka Peter Tobin \u2013 foundling, drover, shearer, horse-breaker, soldier, and pastoralist \u2013 travelled far and wide throughout the Australian outback in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.The legacy of his widely scattered seed is gathered up in this tale of fatal misunderstandings, murder, and altruism, spanning the years 1910 to 1974. Like the Peter Tobin memoir<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThursday\u2019s Child\u201d that precedes it, the author gives a respectful nod to history pedants and reminds them this is a work of fiction. Thursday\u2019s Child is the first novel by Clive Thomas. A retired grazier (rancher), he lives in a seacoast village just north of Sydney, Australia. He spent his childhood years amongst the last<\/p>\n<p>of the Australian Bushmen. Apart from following the boyhood and pre-World War II career of the fictional Harry Perrottet (1910 to 1946), his second novel Sevengate spans the years 1947 to 1974. The setting shifts from Sydney, Australia, to the temperate inland town of Kangamite to a sheep station (ranch) called Sevengate, which is also featured in Thursday\u2019s Child. Says the author, \u201cI found I\u2019d conjured up many characters from my past who belonged to an extinct species. They weren\u2019t going to rest until I\u2019d told their tales.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Book \u201cThursday\u2019s Child,\u201d aka Peter Tobin \u2013 foundling, drover, shearer, horse-breaker, soldier, and pastoralist \u2013 travelled far and wide throughout the Australian outback in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.The legacy of his widely scattered seed is gathered up in this tale of fatal misunderstandings, murder, and altruism, spanning the years 1910 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/clivethomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}