{"id":2,"date":"2014-04-04T20:01:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T20:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-04-04T20:59:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T20:59:14","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Parch by Sheldon Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2014\/04\/978-1-62857-453-1-SGreeneCover.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-6\" alt=\"9781628574531-Greene_CV.indd\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2014\/04\/978-1-62857-453-1-SGreeneCover.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2014\/04\/978-1-62857-453-1-SGreeneCover.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2014\/04\/978-1-62857-453-1-SGreeneCover-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Futuristic Novel Depicts<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> California After the USA<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Breaks Up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the year 2075, after a long drought, California is transformed. The United States has collapsed and California has become an independent republic dominated by a powerful corporation. Bran, an 18-year-old shepherd, must travel through California in 10 days to keep his rural community from losing its land. He teams up with a run-away girl, a boy with uncanny skills, and a musician with a secret agenda.<\/p>\n<p>This vivid dystopian fantasy is a chilling vision of what we might become. The well crafted story and plot flow naturally, and keep you hooked right up to the last page. Along the way, you will learn something about loyalty, friendship, and trust.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sample: \u201cThe spear-straight firs that had once covered the gentle slope and obscured the view of Templeton are now just a memory recalled by a cemetery of bleached and rotten stumps. Templeton is as Bran has always known it; green, slope-roofed, homely buildings, baled like recycled newspapers by its sixteen-foot-high double barbed-wire fence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheldon Greene<\/strong> is a critically acclaimed novelist who has been called \u201ca born storyteller\u201d by the Los Angeles Times for his book <em>Lost and Foun<\/em>d (Random House); \u201cimmensely entertaining\u201d by Dallas Morning News. This is his fifth novel. He is a lawyer, an executive in a wind energy development company, and has a background of high impact public interest litigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Book A Futuristic Novel Depicts California After the USA Breaks Up In the year 2075, after a long drought, California is transformed. The United States has collapsed and California has become an independent republic dominated by a powerful corporation. Bran, an 18-year-old shepherd, must travel through California in 10 days to keep his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"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\/sheldongreene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/sheldongreene\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}