{"id":11379,"date":"2012-09-19T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T19:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=11379"},"modified":"2012-09-19T12:48:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T19:48:50","slug":"escape-from-terra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/19\/escape-from-terra\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape from Terra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/09\/19\/escape-from-terra\/escapefromterra-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/EscapefromTerra1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"EscapefromTerra\" width=\"199\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11381\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to friend and occasional Living Freedom visitor Sandy Sandfort. Also to long-time freedomista Scott Bieser and illustrator Lee Oaks.<\/p>\n<p>Their graphic novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0974381470\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0974381470&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Escape from Terra: Volume 1<\/i><\/a> has been named Freedom Book of the Month by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedombookclub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Book Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>July&#8217;s winner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/146644830X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=146644830X&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\"><i>High Desert Barbecue<\/i><\/a>, was also by a friend of this blog, J.D. Tuccille.<\/p>\n<p>Both are fun, freedom-oriented novels.<\/p>\n<p>August&#8217;s winner was also by a familiar and friendly name, L. Neil Smith. I confess I haven&#8217;t yet read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1612420559\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1612420559&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Down With Power: Libertarian Policy in a Time of Crisis<\/i><\/a>. Guess I&#8217;d better get cracking on that!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s either an amazing coincidence that friends and acquaintances won the last three awards &#8212; or a sign of how small the freedomista world is.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t yet see Wendy McElroy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lfb.org\/shop\/civil-liberties\/the-art-of-being-free\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Art of Being Free<\/i><\/a> among the nominees (maybe because it&#8217;s scarce on Amazon or maybe just so new). But I&#8217;m reading and enjoying that book right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to friend and occasional Living Freedom visitor Sandy Sandfort. Also to long-time freedomista Scott Bieser and illustrator Lee Oaks. Their graphic novel, Escape from Terra: Volume 1 has been named Freedom Book of the Month by the Freedom Book Club. July&#8217;s winner, High Desert Barbecue, was also by a friend of this blog, J.D. Tuccille. Both are fun, freedom-oriented novels. August&#8217;s winner was also by a familiar and friendly name, L. Neil Smith. I confess I haven&#8217;t yet read Down With Power: Libertarian Policy in a Time of Crisis. Guess I&#8217;d better get cracking on that! It&#8217;s either an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/19\/escape-from-terra\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Escape from Terra<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}