{"id":348,"date":"2016-11-27T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T01:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2017-01-21T12:57:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T01:57:18","slug":"the-howling-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/work\/novels\/the-howling-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Howling Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first jaunt into the realms of sci-fi, but not my first attempt at coming up with a suitable story.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Howling Winds<\/em> is a story about an alien private detective, Ness Kahr, sent to track down the son of a rich human businessman who was lost in action during a space battle, along with the ship and all the crew. What at first seems like a straightforward missing persons investigation turns into an action-filled chase across the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>The fascination with aliens really led me to writing this story, partly because I love <em>Mass Effect<\/em> so much but also because I wanted to explore what humans looked like to other races. To Ness, they don&#8217;t look very good, and the story will address themes of xenophobia and coping with depression as the crew of the Kestrel bunny-hop around the galaxy in search of the missing human soldier. I&#8217;m really enjoying writing this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What at first seems like a straightforward missing persons investigation turns into an action-filled chase across the galaxy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}