{"id":26831,"date":"2020-09-22T08:24:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26831"},"modified":"2020-09-22T08:24:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:24:56","slug":"yeah-i-had-that-in-a-book-plot-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/22\/yeah-i-had-that-in-a-book-plot-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, I Had That In A Book Plot, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fox17.com\/news\/offbeat\/video-tourist-captures-ghost-sighting-at-gettysburg-battlefield-sparks-debate\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VIDEO: Tourist captures &#8216;ghost sighting&#8217; at Gettysburg battlefield, sparks debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1990s when I was under the influence of the Anita Blake novels, wherein vampires come out of the shadows and get legal protections of a sort, I thought <em>what if a ghost on a Civil War battlefield became aware of his surroundings and got legal protections?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It did not go as far as <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/07\/the-folder-of-broken-dreams\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some of my books went<\/a>, with anywhere from just a title page to several chapters stuffed into an old Microsoft Word document on a PC long ago.  Just the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should take it up again.  Perhaps I could sell a dozen copies.<\/p>\n<p>(Link most recently from <a href=\"http:\/\/ogdaa.blogspot.com\/2020\/09\/tourist-captures-ghost-sighting-at.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Knuckledraggin<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO: Tourist captures &#8216;ghost sighting&#8217; at Gettysburg battlefield, sparks debate. Back in the 1990s when I was under the influence of the Anita Blake novels, wherein vampires come out of the shadows and get legal protections of a sort, I thought what if a ghost on a Civil War battlefield became aware of his surroundings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26833,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831\/revisions\/26833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}