{"id":92,"date":"2020-04-19T06:37:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T13:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2020-06-23T08:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:34:18","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/author\/","title":{"rendered":"Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the &#8216;decipherer, editor, and translator&#8217; of The Earthy Language Cycle, a series of &#8216;novels&#8217; (in the original sense of the word) set in our past, present, and future and based upon the trunkful of yellowed documents &#8216;acquired&#8217; by my paternal-great-grandfather, George William Scarcliff, a humble postal clerk in nineteenth-century Nottingham, England.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my story, and I&#8217;m sticking to it.<\/p>\n<p>I read widely, but I&#8217;m especially drawn to works that help us elude the confines of our own particular culture: alt-history, cross-cultural adventure, fantasy, magical realism, science fiction, speculative fiction, and the like.<\/p>\n<p>I owe any success I&#8217;ve had in my endeavors to my wife, Joy Acosta y Salvador. She&#8217;s a joyous Filipino-American, and I&#8217;m a bemused Anglo-American, and our union has been a cross-cultural adventure in its own right, producing, amongst our many other small triumphs, our three most excellent sons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the &#8216;decipherer, editor, and translator&#8217; of The Earthy Language Cycle, a series of &#8216;novels&#8217; (in the original sense of the word) set in our past, present, and future and based upon the trunkful of yellowed documents &#8216;acquired&#8217; by my paternal-great-grandfather, George William Scarcliff, a humble postal clerk in nineteenth-century Nottingham, England. That&#8217;s my story, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Author<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}