{"id":3881,"date":"2013-10-29T23:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2013-10-29T23:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T04:00:43","slug":"a-life-so-free-page-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/3881\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life So Free Page 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peyre explains his love for the life of a voyageur in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/pages\/ch7\/v3.php\" target=\"_blank\">Page 3<\/a> of <em>A Life So Free<\/em>. The voyageurs were the long-haul truckers of colonial French Canada. They paddled canoes loaded with trade goods from Montreal to the native towns on the Great Lakes then made the return trip laden with furs. They were strong men used to adversity and were not a breed to be trifled with lightly. To see a preview of page 4, please <a href=\"http:\/\/topwebcomics.com\/vote\/11790\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">vote for Snow by Night <\/a>on Top Web Comics.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, Brittany and I will be attending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nekocon.com\" target=\"_blank\">NekoCon<\/a> in Hampton Roads, Va. Come by and see us. We&#8217;ll be bringing books, prints, and buttons, as well as friendly chatter and some tall tales.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunsetgrillcomic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sunset Grill<\/a> when you get a chance. It reminds me of Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. And that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peyre explains his love for the life of a voyageur in Page 3 of A Life So Free. The voyageurs were the long-haul truckers of colonial French Canada. They paddled canoes loaded with trade goods from Montreal to the native towns on the Great Lakes then made the return trip laden with furs. They were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-new-page","category-vignette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}