{"id":473,"date":"2015-06-08T17:57:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hannahourani.com\/writer\/?p=473"},"modified":"2015-10-06T20:46:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:46:36","slug":"death-divinity-and-the-smiling-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/2015\/06\/08\/death-divinity-and-the-smiling-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Death, Divinity and the Smiling Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death, Divinity and the Smiling Man, a novella\u00a0that has gone in name from &#8220;The story of James&#8221;, to the &#8220;Book of James, to countless other variations, and from being written in the first person to being written in the 3rd person, has finally been published.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big deal to me because I happen to have written it.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on about the pride that I feel at publishing this work but to be honest that&#8217;s not the best part. The best part is that the book is out there. It&#8217;s relieving, much like (and pardon the language) taking a giant dump. It felt like I was literarily constipated.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the evening after publication with a grin on my face &#8211; there&#8217;s nothing quite like seeing a piece of you out in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The book has receive favorable reviews by those that have read it, so that gives me hope.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also tried my hand at cover design. Aside from the papal colors, I think it turned out fine.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to give this novella a read. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00Y8GW3U2?\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s available on Kindle at the moment<\/a>, but let me know if you prefer other distribution channels.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00Y8GW3U2\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hannahourani-640x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Click the image to go to the Amazon page\" width=\"604\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hannahourani-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hannahourani-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hannahourani.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click the image to go to the Amazon page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death, Divinity and the Smiling Man, a novella\u00a0that has gone in name from &#8220;The story of James&#8221;, to the &#8220;Book of James, to countless other variations, and from being written in the first person to being written in the 3rd person, has finally been published. It&#8217;s a big deal to me because I happen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"amp_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Yr1F-7D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahourani.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}