{"id":4163,"date":"2015-06-05T19:05:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T23:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2015-06-05T19:07:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T23:07:46","slug":"mirror-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/the-vault-of-dreamers\/mirror-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4164\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4164\" class=\"wp-image-4164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MirrorsBrooklyn.jpeg\" alt=\"&quot;Mirror Labyrinth&quot; by Jeppe Hein in Brooklyn Bridge Park, May 31, 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MirrorsBrooklyn.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MirrorsBrooklyn-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MirrorsBrooklyn-450x338.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MirrorsBrooklyn-250x188.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Mirror Labyrinth&#8221; by Jeppe Hein in Brooklyn Bridge Park, May 31, 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ve been intrigued by the land in the mirror ever since I was a kid and met my friend in the glass. She was always waiting, the silent, trapped version of me on the other side. She only appeared when I came looking and never moved without me. She would look me in the eye no matter how closely I approached and never showed me the back of her head.<\/p>\n<p>So when I began writing <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23310692-the-rule-of-mirrors\" target=\"_blank\">The Rule of Mirrors<\/a><\/em>, even before I had the title, I was ready to play with the idea of a mirror character. After yet another intense round of revision, I sent the latest draft of my novel to my editor this morning, and frankly, I\u2019m beat. I feel, once again, like I\u2019ve taken on a project that\u2019s bigger than I can handle. As my mind keeps working over the loose ends I still haven\u2019t resolved, I\u2019m gazing into a reflecting pool where the creatures below the surface are more majestic and mysterious than ones I\u2019ve ever known here safely on land.<\/p>\n<p>And I wonder: isn\u2019t a novel, in a way, a reflection of its writer? Or better still, a reflection of the world we live in? I\u2019m simply creating a new mirror, and a new world on the other side, but the answers to that world\u2019s problems must exist on my side, if only I can touch the right tools.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h5i1atoUyeM<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been intrigued by the land in the mirror ever since I was a kid and met my friend in the glass. She was always waiting, the silent, trapped version of me on the other side. She only appeared when I came looking and never moved without me. She would look me in the eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[606,37],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-vault-of-dreamers","tag-rule-of-mirrors","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}