{"id":6085,"date":"2023-06-19T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WP\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:00:09","slug":"attilas-revenge-why-i-wrote-historical-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/android\/attilas-revenge-why-i-wrote-historical-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Attila&#8217;s Revenge Why I Wrote Historical Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; padding-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.2em; color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: small-caps;\"><strong>A Vicious Enemy \u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 A City Destroyed \u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 A Captured Daughter<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0C7JW8DMY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pre-Order Your Copy Today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6039 alignleft\" style=\"margin-top: 20px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 10px grey;\" src=\"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Graphic-For-WordPress-215x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Graphic-For-WordPress-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Graphic-For-WordPress-300x419.png 300w, https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Graphic-For-WordPress.png 708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-bottom: -2px; float: left; color: red; font-size: 70px; line-height: 45px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; font-family: Georgia; text-shadow: grey 4px 4px 10px;\">A<\/span>ttila&#8217;s Revenge is a project that I&#8217;ve worked on for over 30 years.I know that sounds baffling, but it is, in deed, the case. The germ of an idea for the book began when I was reading about Attila and how he died. My research revealed that he did actually die from a massive blood loss from his nose and maybe his mouth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">That this happened on his wedding night is also factual. The woman he married was his thirty or thirty-first wife. They found her cowering in a corner, afraid and shaking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">At least, this is the accepted version of his death. He left behind no succession plan and his three sons got to squabbling and a few years later, the Hun empire fell apart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">In their years of terror, they produced nothing, left nothing behind but some jewelry and happiness that they were gone. Called the scourge of God by churchmen, they said he was sent to punish humanity for its sins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">So, somewhere along the way, the idea took root, and I began researching Attila and old Rome. And I was hooked. The more i read, the more I wanted to read. And now the work is finished and I&#8217;m, finally, on to other things. Along the way, I published many articles, blog posts, and books online and in-print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Vicious Enemy \u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 A City Destroyed \u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 A Captured Daughter Pre-Order Your Copy Today! Attila&#8217;s Revenge is a project that I&#8217;ve worked on for over 30 years.I know that sounds baffling,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}