{"id":1215,"date":"2022-03-08T09:15:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T13:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?page_id=1215"},"modified":"2022-03-08T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T13:16:22","slug":"the-soothsayer-the-changeling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?page_id=1215","title":{"rendered":"The Soothsayer &#038; The Changeling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41ny0jOistL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a horrific smashup on the interstate, Danny inexplicably acquires the ability to foretell and experience specific moments from others&#8217; future lives. This gift destroys his marriage and pushes him to the brink of madness. He finds solace and release as a soothsayer in the back room of the Tree of Life Book Shoppe, handing out tidbits from the futures of his largely narcissistic clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kristi, a Tarot reader extraordinaire at the shop, has known since she was an adolescent visited by strange beings who might be goddesses or aliens\u2014who&#8217;s to say\u2014that she can cast spells that transform peoples&#8217; lives, sometimes with disastrous results. When she sets her sights on Danny to win his love, she makes a deal with the Triple Goddess\u2014his love for the pair&#8217;s help in fulfilling a wish of the goddess&#8217;s own, to save the planet from its inevitable demise from human hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus begins&nbsp;<em>The Soothsayer &amp; the Changeling<\/em>&nbsp;in which the varied self-absorbed lives of a stunning beauty, a no-talent screenwriter, a bereaved Christian widow, a disgraced professor, an over-medicated depressive, and a lonely mountain boy with a way with animals are woven together to yield a dream of doom to awaken the slumbering world before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Promising epiphany over apocalypse,&nbsp;<em>The Soothsayer &amp; the Changeling<\/em>&nbsp;pits our deeply personal obsessive lives against a dying planet upon which all our dreams depend, and offers the possibility of hope and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a horrific smashup on the interstate, Danny inexplicably acquires the ability to foretell and experience specific moments from others&#8217; future lives. This gift destroys his marriage and pushes him to the brink of madness. He finds solace and release &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?page_id=1215\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1215","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215\/revisions\/1216"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}