{"id":11871,"date":"2019-01-28T18:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T22:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=11871"},"modified":"2019-07-09T22:18:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T02:18:01","slug":"leaning-on-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/11871","title":{"rendered":"Leaning on the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cHe had a strong sense of his life being upon the turn, between two seasons, as it were, with the certainties of the one no longer valid for the other. He was not a fanciful man, but for some time now he had had an indefinable sense of chaos following order, of impending disaster; and it oppressed his mind.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 the thoughts of Captain J Aubrey<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Treason\u2019s Harbour<\/em> by Patrick O\u2019Brian<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly a year since my 21-novel Patrick O\u2019Brian binge came to a close, and I\u2019m wondering if I shall ever again make decent nautical-themed art without beginning the entire Aubrey-Maturin series anew.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dixon_LeaningOnTheSky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dixon_LeaningOnTheSky.jpg\" title=\"Leaning on the Sky ~ J A Dixon\" height=\"425\" width=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dixon_LeaningOnTheSky.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dixon_LeaningOnTheSky-300x383.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 444px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Leaning on the Sky<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage on book cover by J A Dixon<br \/>\n8 x 10.5 inches<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=9L8EUXSEWXMCU\" title=\"BUY NOW from Dixon Design through PayPal.\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase this artwork.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe had a strong sense of his life being upon the turn, between two seasons, as it were, with the certainties of the one no longer valid for the other. He was not a fanciful man, but for some time now he had had an indefinable sense of chaos following order, of impending disaster; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,18,376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12456,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions\/12456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}