{"id":84,"date":"2021-11-15T01:18:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T01:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2021-11-16T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:55:06","slug":"callan-and-the-joy-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/index.php\/callan-and-the-joy-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Callan and the Joy of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Callan is sixteen years old and ready to party. Her Uncle Sgurr, who\u2019s been guarding her since the plague, has effed off on a quest to rescue the great groundwhale Strop, which means she\u2019ll have the house to herself for a glorious Summer of Callan. She\u2019s even taken up with an obscenely hot, if somewhat dimwitted, musician, who would look pretty good lying by the creek in the back yard. Only problem is he doesn\u2019t seem into her. And he gave away all their money to the girl he is in love with. And <em>she\u2019s<\/em> been kidnapped by her ex-colonel father who wants to drag her into the Uplands to marry some goat cheese magnate. And also, has anyone noticed the weather\u2019s gone crazy since Strop disappeared? Oh Makers, Callan\u2019s going to have to travel Uplands and fix all these idiots\u2019 problems so she can get back to her life, isn\u2019t she?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Callan and the Joy of the Earth<\/em>\u00a0is a comedic fantasy adventure novel about a teenager learning to take responsibility when the grown-ups  won\u2019t and to face the grief at the heart of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">83,000wds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Callan-and-the-Joy-of-the-Earth-Sample-3-chapters-copy.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of Callan and the Joy of the Earth, sample chapters..\"><\/object><a href=\"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Callan-and-the-Joy-of-the-Earth-Sample-3-chapters-copy.pdf\">Callan and the Joy of the Earth, sample chapters<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Callan-and-the-Joy-of-the-Earth-Sample-3-chapters-copy.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYNOPSIS Callan is sixteen years old and ready to party. Her Uncle Sgurr, who\u2019s been guarding her since the plague, has effed off on a quest to rescue the great groundwhale Strop, which means she\u2019ll have the house to herself for a glorious Summer of Callan. She\u2019s even taken up with an obscenely hot, if&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/index.php\/callan-and-the-joy-of-the-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Callan and the Joy of the Earth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenfoglia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}