{"id":606,"date":"2009-02-18T00:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T05:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=606"},"modified":"2009-02-18T00:26:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T05:26:24","slug":"blood-witness-a-novel-by-dave-hitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/blood-witness-a-novel-by-dave-hitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Witness &#8211; A Novel by Dave Hitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to read a novel about a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness becoming a vampire.\u00c2\u00a0 JW&#8217;s are adverse to any kind of blood ingestion, so he&#8217;d have some trouble with that.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, they believe Christ died on a stake, not a cross, so crucifixes wouldn&#8217;t bother him. \u00c2\u00a0 It would be even more interesting to contrast the horror of being trapped in a mind-numbing cult to the horror of\u00c2\u00a0 having to kill people, lots of people, to survive.\u00c2\u00a0 But no such novel existed.<\/p>\n<p>So I wrote one.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Anderson is a high school senior, a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness who has discovered a strange new power he can&#8217;t quite control.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Catharine Nightshade is one of the world&#8217;s oldest vampires, and she&#8217;s on the prowl for a new lover.\u00c2\u00a0 Together the two of them discover a threat that could result in the end of vampires everywhere, and change the world of man forever.\u00c2\u00a0 And the only solution is to break the One Law that binds them all.<\/p>\n<p>Blood Witness is now available as a free podiobook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodwitness.com\">bloodwitness.com<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 You can subscribe to it through iTunes or any podcatcher.\u00c2\u00a0 You can even listen to it directly on the site.\u00c2\u00a0 New episodes will be released every Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>When a vampire Jehovah&#8217;s Witness knocks on your door, don&#8217;t invite him in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to read a novel about a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness becoming a vampire.\u00c2\u00a0 JW&#8217;s are adverse to any kind of blood ingestion, so he&#8217;d have some trouble with that.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, they believe Christ died on a stake, not a cross, so crucifixes wouldn&#8217;t bother him. \u00c2\u00a0 It would be even more interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[43,45,41,42,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}