{"id":6868,"date":"2012-01-18T23:34:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T04:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2012-01-18T23:34:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T04:34:51","slug":"journey-to-jordan-is-now-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/journey-to-jordan-is-now-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey to Jordan is now published!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/124518\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6869\" title=\"Thumb (Journey to Jordan)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Thumb-Journey-to-Jordan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Thumb-Journey-to-Jordan.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Thumb-Journey-to-Jordan-105x140.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>My travel journals from the 2008 BYU Jordan Study Abroad are now available as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/124518\" target=\"_blank\">an indie published ebook from Smashwords<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Originally published <a href=\"http:\/\/onelowerlight.com\/jordan08\/\" target=\"_blank\">as a blog<\/a>, I always wanted to make it available as a book someday. \u00a0I spent the last couple of months running through it, putting together all the old posts as well as a few private ones.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve edited them to bring the quality of my writing up to date, but did my best to retain the original sense of enthusiasm and discovery. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also added a foreword and afterword to give it a little more context, especially in light of the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>This is the unillustrated version; I&#8217;m not exactly sure how to format ebooks with pictures, so the illustrated version with the photographs will have to wait. \u00a0I can&#8217;t promise I&#8217;ll get it up before I head out to Georgia (I&#8217;m just waiting to get the call&#8211;I could be leaving as soon as next week), but I&#8217;ll do what I can.<\/p>\n<p>This version will be exactly the same as the other except for the photos, however, so if that&#8217;s not important to you, the unillustrated version is cheaper and much less unwieldy (only 895 KB). \u00a0Also, until Smashwords allows for direct epub uploads in a little less than a year, the only version available from Smashwords will be this version.<\/p>\n<p>It was a lot of fun putting this one together, and I&#8217;m excited to see it up! \u00a0As with all my books, thanks for taking the time to read it, and I hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My travel journals from the 2008 BYU Jordan Study Abroad are now available as an indie published ebook from Smashwords! Originally published as a blog, I always wanted to make it available as a book someday. \u00a0I spent the last couple of months running through it, putting together all the old posts as well as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/journey-to-jordan-is-now-published\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journey to Jordan is now published!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[547,515,152,495,148,63],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ebook-formatting","tag-ebooks","tag-jordan-study-abroad-2008","tag-teaching-english-abroad","tag-travel","tag-triumphs","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1MM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6872,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions\/6872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}