{"id":35,"date":"2019-02-07T00:56:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T00:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2019-02-07T17:24:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T17:24:42","slug":"but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"But&#8230; why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WHY-PNR-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36\" srcset=\"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WHY-PNR-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WHY-PNR-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WHY-PNR-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WHY-PNR-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WHY-PNR-850x850.png 850w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WHY-PNR.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/authormiristone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"As seen on my insta account -- JOIN ME! (opens in a new tab)\">As seen on my insta account &#8212; JOIN ME!<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper, I\u2019ve made up fantastical worlds in my head then jumped inside them, rolled about in them, met weird and wonderful beings in them, and gone on massive quests and adventures with those friends\u2026 and at the end of the day, I would head back inside to share my stories. I never did \u201cget my feet on the ground\u201d, sorry Mum!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, I\u2019ve dabbled in many forms of storytelling \u2014 from acting in Shakespearean plays to writing and directing fantasy films \u2014 and now I\u2019m writing novels about a crew of firefighting bear shifters and the troublesome new barista in town who keeps turning their alpha\u2019s world upside down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But throughout my creative lives I have had one constant. To me \u2014 these worlds, these characters, these adventures \u2014 ARE REAL. I <em>believe in magic<\/em> and this year, as I start publishing The Phoenix Crew Series, I invite you to dive into their wild and beautiful world with me. I promise in these pages you will find romance, steam, adventure, mystery and, yes, bucket loads of magic. (I even have the #believeinmagic mantra band and everything) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With love, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miri Stone xox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper, I\u2019ve made up fantastical worlds in my head then jumped inside them, rolled about in them, met weird and wonderful beings in them, and gone on massive quests and adventures with those friends\u2026 and at the end of the day, I would head back inside to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[14,6,13,12,15,3,4,5,9,10,8,7,11],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-writing","tag-believe-in-magic","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-fantasy-lover","tag-on-writing","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-paranormal-romance-author","tag-paranormal-shifter-romance","tag-phoenix-crew-series","tag-pnr","tag-pyro-pyro-burning-bright","tag-romance-author","tag-shifter-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}