{"id":2,"date":"2014-02-10T20:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-04-15T20:12:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T20:12:35","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chance Encounter by John Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2014\/02\/978-1-62857-102-8-JClarkCover.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-6\" alt=\"978-1-62857-102-8-JClarkCover\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2014\/02\/978-1-62857-102-8-JClarkCover.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Love Blossoms Between the<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> World Wars in Historical Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A Chance Encounter<\/em> is a tale of friendship, romance, and betrayal set in the turbulent era between the First World War and the early years of the Nazi dictatorship. It is a time of momentous social and political change in Germany, when those who dare to speak out run the risk of imprisonment or worse.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of World War I, 19-year-old Roland Massey is conscripted into the British Army and sent to the Western Front. His aim is to return home unscathed to Cheshire. Following a battle near Rheims, he is given temporary custody of Paul Sondheim, a captured German soldier.<\/p>\n<p>Their meeting results in a reunion after the war, and Roland\u2019s introduction to Paul\u2019s beautiful sister, Stefanie. But brother and sister are flirting with danger as political extremism takes hold in inter-war Germany. Can Roland save them both from disaster?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2014\/02\/Clark-John-A-Chance-Encounter-PR-Final1.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><strong>View the Press Release<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Clark<\/strong> was born in Cheshire, England. He is a retired history teacher with a particular interest in the First World War. His many visits to the former battlefields of France and Flanders became the inspiration for this, his first novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Book Love Blossoms Between the World Wars in Historical Novel A Chance Encounter is a tale of friendship, romance, and betrayal set in the turbulent era between the First World War and the early years of the Nazi dictatorship. It is a time of momentous social and political change in Germany, when those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/johnclark\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}