{"id":1343,"date":"2009-08-22T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2009-08-22T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T14:28:10","slug":"on-master-of-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"On &#8220;Master of Shadows&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Amazon have posted a short &#8220;why I wrote the book&#8221; piece on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Master-Shadows-Secret-Diplomatic-Painter\/dp\/0385523793\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1239483977&#038;sr=8-2\">Master of Shadows page<\/a>. &#8220;Peter Paul Rubens gives us a lot to think about in his canvasses of rushing color, action, and puckered flesh, so it\u2019s not surprising that his work as a diplomat and spy has been neglected,&#8221; it begins. There&#8217;s even a photo of your trusty author. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Amazon have posted a short &#8220;why I wrote the book&#8221; piece on their Master of Shadows page. &#8220;Peter Paul Rubens gives us a lot to think about in his canvasses of rushing color, action, and puckered flesh, so it\u2019s not surprising that his work as a diplomat and spy has been neglected,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On &#8220;Master of Shadows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}