{"id":37,"date":"2020-08-10T18:18:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2020-08-10T18:18:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T18:18:40","slug":"chocolate-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>by Nancy Fairbanks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/quake_med-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/quake_med-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/quake_med.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon after arriving in San Francisco Carolyn takes a deep breath and does what she has to\u2026calls her mother-in-law to tell her they\u2019re in town. The answering machine picks up: \u201cYou have reached Professor Vera Blue. I am not home because I have been arrested for first degree murder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Carolyn has to go directly to jail\u2014to find out why the famous feminist was at the scene of the crime with the victim\u2019s blood all over her. Between police and prisoners, lawyers and liars\u2014and even a few earthquake tremors\u2014Carolyn is truly shaken. However, while sampling San Francisco fare, she perseveres in her investigation of the murder, with the help of a motorcycle-riding, ex-pro football player private eye, who calls himself the Sam Spade of the Castro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B002XW28F8\/\">Buy @ Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Nancy Fairbanks Soon after arriving in San Francisco Carolyn takes a deep breath and does what she has to\u2026calls her mother-in-law to tell her they\u2019re in town. The answering machine picks up: \u201cYou have reached Professor Vera Blue. I am not home because I have been arrested for first degree murder.\u201d Now Carolyn has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/?p=37\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chocolate Quake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[6,9,4,5,8],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn-blue-mystery-series","category-mystery","tag-carolyn-blue","tag-culinary","tag-mystery","tag-nancy-fairbanks","tag-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}