{"id":5026,"date":"2017-04-21T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2017-04-21T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:56:50","slug":"writing-of-tunnels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/the-vault-of-dreamers\/writing-of-tunnels\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing of Tunnels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5028\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5028\" class=\"wp-image-5028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad1-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad1-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Entrance to Carlsbad Caverns<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When my characters descend into tunnels deep under the earth, I go along with them, craving sunlight the whole way. The silence and darkness under dense layers of stone, the cool, heavy air that sinks into my lungs, and the sense of endless, geological time all oppress and fascinate me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5027\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5027\" class=\"wp-image-5027\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad2-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Carlsbad2-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlsbad Cavern National Park, New Mexico<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I visited\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cave\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlsbad Caverns<\/a> in New Mexico last year, fulfilling a life-long dream, and now I recall those deep spaces whenever I send a character underground.<\/p>\n<p>I relive that vacant darkness when I get my character lost. I&#8217;m thankful it&#8217;s her and not me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my characters descend into tunnels deep under the earth, I go along with them, craving sunlight the whole way. The silence and darkness under dense layers of stone, the cool, heavy air that sinks into my lungs, and the sense of endless, geological time all oppress and fascinate me. I visited\u00a0Carlsbad Caverns in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-5026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-vault-of-dreamers","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026","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=5026"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}