{"id":733,"date":"2010-04-02T21:28:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T03:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2010-04-02T21:28:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T03:28:05","slug":"oath-in-fargo-nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Oath in Fargo, ND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holding up its end of the shelf,\u00a0 the last copy of <em>Oath of Fealty<\/em> in the Barnes &amp; Noble store in Fargo, ND (as of March 31, anyway):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Oath-in-FargoND-20100331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-734\" title=\"Oath-in-FargoND-20100331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Oath-in-FargoND-20100331-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Oath-in-FargoND-20100331-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Oath-in-FargoND-20100331.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>Photo courtesy of Liz Bennefeld<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more-->Naturally, I hope that copy sold and the store re-ordered, but it&#8217;s a delight to see the books behaving well together, even though they&#8217;re very different.\u00a0\u00a0 (And if you think this is a veiled political reference, that would be yes.)\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had a busy two days of church services, so there will be two &#8220;Oath Book Tour&#8221; photo posts tonight to make up for it.\u00a0\u00a0 (For non-Christians, or Christians of other branches,\u00a0 the Maundy Thursday evening service,\u00a0 Good Friday services, Holy Saturday services, all culminate in the Easter Vigil Saturday evening and then the Easter Sunday services.\u00a0\u00a0 For choirs involved in this, it&#8217;s a very intense schedule of very serious music&#8230;today, for instance, we sang anthems by Brahms, Bruckner, Bach, and Mendelssohn. )<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m particularly glad to see <em>Once a Hero<\/em> snuggling up to <em>Oath<\/em> (barely visible to the right)\u00a0 because in my own mind, that&#8217;s the book that started me back toward Paks&#8217;s world, even though it was a long time coming, still.\u00a0\u00a0 (Well, so was <em>Remnant Population<\/em>, but in a different way.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tomorrow I have a book signing in Killeen, which is always fun and interesting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holding up its end of the shelf,\u00a0 the last copy of Oath of Fealty in the Barnes &amp; Noble store in Fargo, ND (as of March 31, anyway): Photo courtesy of Liz Bennefeld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,57],"tags":[112,79],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-reader-help","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-reader-book-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}