{"id":848,"date":"2017-08-22T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=848"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T13:00:36","slug":"the-common-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"The Common Clown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheCommonClown-98.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-849\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheCommonClown-98-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheCommonClown-98-221x300.jpg 221w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheCommonClown-98-768x1041.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheCommonClown-98-755x1024.jpg 755w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheCommonClown-98.jpg 1533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/>\u00a0<\/a>Book Excerpt<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Common Clown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Common clowns are often disregarded as low bred buffoons.\u00a0 They are, in fact a surprisingly talented, hard working lot, although, for much of what they do, it hardly matters whether they&#8217;re &#8216;real clowns&#8217; or not&#8230;and most people can&#8217;t tell.\u00a0 Many have families and live in homes like regular folks.\u00a0 Despite being the most steady and conservative of the species, they take the brunt of people&#8217;s fear and hatred and bigotry &#8211; as they are also the most recognized as clowns.\u00a0 I encountered some heavy drinkers, rabble-rousers, dysfunctional lovers and one or two creepy invitations to get into a van for some free ice cream&#8230;but most were essentially harmless.<\/p>\n<p><em>***This is the 4th of 4 in the series which originally had 6, but the other two were nixed from &#8220;Bludgeon the Clown&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0repurposed earlier.\u00a0 The intro to the book\u00a0simply took a different (better) direction as we hammered and honed\u00a0it into shape.\u00a0 Now John is stuck in the new offices\u00a0of EEW Books, finalizing the page layouts piece by piece.\u00a0 This book is gonna be a dooozy when it&#8217;s done.\u00a0 -Marsha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Book Excerpt The Common Clown Common clowns are often disregarded as low bred buffoons.\u00a0 They are, in fact a surprisingly talented, hard working lot, although, for much of what they do, it hardly matters whether they&#8217;re &#8216;real clowns&#8217; or not&#8230;and most people can&#8217;t tell.\u00a0 Many have families and live in homes like regular folks.\u00a0 Despite &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Common Clown<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242,125,109],"tags":[210,105,128,176,99,96,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}